Microsoft Sync Toy

For anyone like me who likes to keep a full copy of their photos directory on external hard drives comes this free useful little utility from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.c​om …e41af06eb7&disp​laylang=en

The neat things is that it has a number of options, one of which (Combine) copies across new files and re-names but not deletions.

Free,useful and Microsoft. Not often you will see those words in one sentence!

Thanks for sharing, but I think the link is bad.

Not now

Not the most powerful, or fastest, thing out there, but worked Ok when I used it. Can't beat the price.

What's nice about this program is that the backup it makes is not proprietary. I echo My Documents (which is on it's own drive) to an external hard drive. Need be I can just swap them out with each other and they are exact copies. I run the program about once a week and after the first time it only takes a few minutes.

The program is interesting and its origin is too. It was actually developed for photographers on location in the field. I have included a link to the documentation for the program, it's worth a read.

http://www.microsoft.c​om …bd8695f23d&Disp​layLang=en