![]() I nearly dropped the program at this point. Apparently files stored in the root folder could not be synchronized in any case, unless perhaps one went to the trouble of mapping that drive and attempting a sync on the map. As I confirmed at their FAQs page, the best I could do was to set up separate jobs for each individual folder off the root drive! So if I created a new root folder (say, D:\Newfolder) and forgot to set up a new GoodSync job for it, it would not be synchronized likewise if I changed a root folder's name. Unfortunately, it wouldn't let me designate all of computer A. I needed to indicate what I wanted to synchronize. The interface was like other file comparison software, with two panels side-by-side representing the two computers being synchronized. I had a choice of synchronizing or backup. It opened a dialog inviting me to set up my first job. With that in place, I installed GoodSync on one computer and ran it. If I was going to write scripts, I would just use the Windows equivalents of rsync and cron.) (My impression of Beyond Compare was that it could have done much of the same thing as GoodSync, but would have required me to write scripts to do it. So I could change just one thing and see what happened. ![]() So both computers, at this point, had identical data. In fact, I went ahead, using Beyond Compare, to synchronize those backups with each other. I had also done full backups on both computers to an external drive that was now disconnected, so I was confident that even the worst screwup could not completely trash anything irreplaceable. I had set up a home network, so I knew my computers were seeing each other. There was no user forum on the GoodSync site.) (I later found an indication that the portable version would not start automatically with Windows and could not be scheduled via Windows Scheduler. I would have gone with the portable version, if I had had a more consistently good experience with other portable software - after all, why not avoid having to reinstall a program on each machine? It was a little confusing - they seemed to offer a separate trial version - but on the assumption that I would just have to enter a license key within 30 days, I downloaded Pro version 8.5. The download page (for the Pro version) offered versions 8.5, 9 beta, Mac, and portable. On their Features page I noticed, among other things, that "Analysis and Synchronization can be started when any file in sync folders changes." I saw that GoodSync also came in an Enterprise version with appropriate features (e.g., command line) for $10 more. I started by going to GoodSync's homepage to see if their description made the program sound like what I needed. This seems to be a good way of conveying what it was actually like to install and use the program. As with my other posts, this post presents the actual process, in all its chaotic glory. As described in another post (posted about the same time as this one), I decided to try GoodSync to keep two desktop computers running Windows 7 in constant synchronization.
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