Friday, February 23, 2018
An unsung tool
I've been ripping Microsoft up one side and down the other for their criminally terrible MALWARE known as Windows 10.
In fairness I should praise another recent MS product that is the exact opposite. They don't publicize it much, and they categorize it as a 'toy'. Again it's the exact opposite of a toy. It's a wonderful TOOL that speeds workflow and does EXACTLY what you want it to do. Unlike Win 10 which is always in TOTAL COMMAND of the abject slave user, SyncToy is a tool that follows your orders.
SyncToy is a backup organizer that runs on the basis of 'folder pairs' between the source (hard disk) and the destination (USB or similar). You can form as many folder pairs as you want, and you can define each pair to overwrite, add, or modify in both directions. I find the choice labeled Contribute works best: overwrite if file with same name has changed content, rename if same content has been renamed, and simply write if file is new.
I started using it on the current courseware project back in July, and have been using it several times per day. It typically alters 50 to 100 files on each use, and at this point it's examining a total of 21K files to see which are unmatched. Each complete run takes about two minutes.
Remarkably efficient and adaptable!
Labels: Zero Problems
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