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Syncronize Work folder between PC's


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Hello :)

I have 3 PC's running Windows 7 Home Premium:

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1 Desktop sitting at home.

1 Notebook at my desk in my bedroom.

And 1 Netbook I use outside my house and bring home at end of the work day.

In my Netbook I sometimes work on Office documents, like word and excel files, and have a special folder for all work related.

And when I arrive at home I want those new documents or modified ones to be synchronized with the folder of work at my desktop, that folder in desktop is shared to my notebook, where by wireless I open and save the files using my home network.

So if by now I still make any sence :blush: , could someone recommend me a nice application to synchronize my work folder between computers?

The idea is that I can work on that folder, using any of these 3 PC's and is synchronized.

Thank you :)

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Thanks guys, but that means using cloud services, but the problem is that sometimes I have 15MB word files ( lot's of images ) and the upload speed at my home is slow, so whenever a modification is done, it will take ages :(

Any off cloud application ?

Thank's :)

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use Microsoft live sync, its free and its amazing. I have teh same situation i have 2 laptops once that i leave the house with and one that sits on the dock in the room that gets backed up onto the home server.

i wanted everything to be backed up as it happens and couldn't really do that when i leave the house so I set up Microsoft live sync so wherever i am and if i have internet it send a shadow copy to the laptop back home and the server sees the change and backs it up

couldn't be happier, hope it helps

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Live Sync works pretty well, especially if you use Office applications a lot. If you have Office 2010 you could just store your work documents on SkyDrive, you can open and save documents straight from the Office apps themselves and you view/edit them in a browser if you realy need to.

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  On 23/08/2010 at 18:43, Digitalfox said:

Thanks guys, but that means using cloud services, but the problem is that sometimes I have 15MB word files ( lot's of images ) and the upload speed at my home is slow, so whenever a modification is done, it will take ages :(

Any off cloud application ?

Thank's :)

I'm not sure I see what you want then - it either syncs through the internet or it doesn't. I suppose you could have it syncing with sizeable gaps between updates - but that isn't going to stop modifications at home from having to be uploaded at *some* point.

(Unless everything is edited and stored online ... but that's even more cloud based. It would save your upload issues, though)

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"I have 15MB word files ( lot's of images ) and the upload speed at my home is slow, so whenever a modification is done, it will take ages"

No it won't -- dropbox only sends the changes to the file at bit level.. Not the whole file.

So if you have a 15 MB word doc, and change say 1 word - its not sending the whole 15MB again - just the changes.

you can also use local sync for the machines that are on the same local network - so the transfer of files will not go to the internet and then back down sync between machines on the same lan, will just use the local network between them. So for a first time xfer to your netbook -- just make sure its on your local lan and wont have to worry about sending up and then back down to get the files on your netbook.. Then once synced -- your files will only be sending changes not the whole file.. You can also limit bandwidth used so does not use up your whole pipe, etc.

https://www.dropbox.com/features

Efficient sync - only the pieces of a file that changed (not the whole file) are synced. This saves you time.

Doesn't hog your Internet connection. You can manually set bandwidth limits.

Once you sign up -- grab the latest beta copy from the forum, currently 0.8.93 -- this allows selective sync, ie only specific folders you want to be synced to specific machines. And I know its in the beta, not sure if stable has lan sync feature but the beta does for sure.

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https://www.dropbox.com/help/137

What is LAN sync?

LAN sync is a Dropbox feature that speeds syncing dramatically when the file exists on your Local Area Network (LAN).

What does that mean exactly? Well, when you add a file to your computer's Dropbox, the file is then synced with Dropbox servers. Dropbox will then initiate the syncing process as soon as it determines a change has been made to the file. All linked computers and shared folders will then download any new version of the file. With LAN syncing, Dropbox will look for the new file on your Local Area Network first, bypassing the need to download the file from Dropbox servers, thus speeding up the syncing process considerably.

LAN sync is an extra advantage for use in locations where computers are networked together over the same router or other local area network.

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You get 2GB to start with for free, and can easy increase that with referrals to other people, and also just doing a few things will get you a free 250MB by watching the tour, sharing a folder, putting files in, etc. I currently have 5GB for free for example.

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not sure if this is allowed... but if you want to use dropbox, use my referal link we'll both get some extra space.

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(if it's not allowed then mod's please remove the above link)

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