OS X FOLDER SYNC FREE

$9.00 that has more capabilities, but the basic free program seems to work just fine and it includes real time synch.

OS X FOLDER SYNC PRO

I also discovered a program on the Mac App Store called Sync Folders which is free, and there is also a pro version for $35 won't kill me, just a lessoned learned. Fingers crossed Discover Card will them them to jump off a cliff. There is a order/brokerage house in Georgia called 2COCOM who took the payment, has a phone, but no one answers. I flagged the purchase on Discover and filed a dispute. Then I immediately put in a ticket for a refund (no phone number), and instead of a 'we stand by our product happiness guarantee' I've been getting excuses that what I described does not qualify for a refund and they want me to jump through their tech hoops to prove that the issue was with their software. I have two such folders and it took about an hour to fix. I ended up erasing one of them, and then transferring the 82 GB back over to it. After 15 minutes I forced quit the program and then I discovered that my synch folders were all messed up. First it was slow, and then it bogged down, and I got a spinning wheel.

Anyway, it appears that the company or product has changed hands since I last owned it.Īnyway I installed it and ran a synch on a 82GB folder with a folder on an external drive. Now I don't want to appear prejudice, I'm sure not all Russians are bad or good, whatever. I guess that should have been a warning and I ended up messaging with a guy with a Russian name. I had used the program before and so I purchased it on Saturday because there was no trial. This was when there were actually people in the US (10 years ago) I could talk to on a Customer Support line. Note that I said I used Sync Mate before. It seems to work aside from the sync conflict message, so thats the main thing I guess.Stay far away from Sync Mate by Eltima Software. Just wanted to check that I had followed your advice correctly. Maybe its just a result of the way the iDisk has to be set up to make the syncing work. Is there any reason for getting the iDisk Sync conflicts message? 'MobileMe', then the documents weren't synced, (when I downloaded the document from my MobileMe site, it wasnt updated) When I tried it the other way round, i.e. If I select the 'This Computer' option then everything is synced. Which file do I want to keep - 'This Computer' or 'MobileMe'. The only thing I have noticed is that after the syncing I get a 'Sync Conflict' messages I then open/save/edit from the iDisk>Documents and all is synched! the ones I dragged from the HD in the first place) I then deleted the alias folders from my iDisk>Documents. I dropped those new alias folders into my HD>Documents folder, and deleted the original folders that were in there, so as only to have the alias folders in this location. I dropped the Folders from my HD>Documents folder into my iDisk>Documents folder. I think I carried out your instructions correctly.

OS X FOLDER SYNC UPDATE

cat $LOG | mail -s 'Output of rsync to iDisk' the more advanced, a simple update to the script that would check for access to the internet could be used to only do the rsync if internet access is currently available. I chose every two hours.įor those who want a little closure, adding the following to the end of the script would email a copy of the log file to yourself, assuming you have a local mail server running. In the 'What' section, enter the path to the script (ie: Macintosh HD/Users/MyName/scripts/rsync_idisk.sh), then set a time to run every so often.

OS X FOLDER SYNC INSTALL

Download and install Lingon, then open a new item. Lingon allows you to schedule jobs to run at specific/recurring times via launchd (like cron on most other *nix systems). The joy of rsync is that after the first (long) run, future iterations only sync over what's changed.

OS X FOLDER SYNC MANUAL

While this works well, it's still a manual process. Item x of x' in the bottom of the Finder window. Additionally, opening up Finder and drilling in on the Documents folder under your iDisk will show 'Syncing iDisk. If you like, open another console and do a tail -f log_name and watch the files sync in real time. (iDisk seems to only be giving up about 50Kbps these days, whereas it used to be 250Kbps or better). #!/bin/sh# Sync all data from Documents dir (except Virtual Machines) to MobileMe iDiskexport LOG=/Volumes/'Macintosh HD'/Users/MyName/idisk.logecho `date` > $LOGecho 'Starting copy of Documents to iDisk.' > $LOGrsync -a -E -4 -u -exclude=.DS_Store -exclude=.TemporaryItems -exclude=.VolumeIcon.icns -exclude=tmp -exclude='Virtual Machines' -exclude='Virtual Machines.localized' -stats -progress /Volumes/'Macintosh HD'/Users/MyName/Documents/ /Volumes/iDisk/Documents/ > $LOGecho 'Backup of Documents to iDisk complete.' > $LOGecho '' > $LOGecho `date` > $LOGexit 0With the script saved and executable, simply run it with.

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