File Synchronization refers to reflecting changes from a set of files to the same set of files in another location. Synchronization can also be applied to contacts, music, or other data.
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Diff two folders with different sub-directory structures
I have two folders with different hierarchies. One is flat and the other is sorted by date(folders for month and sub-folders for date). I'd like to either flatten the hierarchy, create the hierarchy, ...
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Sharing Google Calendar with wife so she can see it on iPhone [migrated]
So I have two calendars that I share with my wife. One is normal (which she can see all details for) and the other (my counseling calendar) is for my therapy client schedule. I want her to be able to ...
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How to auto syncronize files with network drive on Windows XP?
Windows XP: I would like to auto synchronize files between a a local drive and a network drive.
I am aware of Windows Briefcase but it is very slow and I have to tell it to synchronize. I really ...
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Safe way of synchronising Dropbox with backup
I use Dropbox but also like to back up my files to an external hard drive. I am currently doing a one way sync from Dropbox to the external drive every hour. This is very inefficient as the ...
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Effective solution to sync single files between several machines
Many cloud syncronization tools (such as SpiderOak, Wuala, Dropbox, SparkleShare and many other) have a one big drawback - you can not syncronize single files such as ~/.vimrc, ~/.zshrc, ~/.bashrc - ...
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Disable iPhone Yahoo contacts sync
Every time I plug in my iPhone, iTunes pops up a dialog asking for sync with Yahoo contacts. after I cancel, it pops up again, for 4-5 more times. But the 'Sync Yahoo!Address Book contacts' option is ...
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moved folders to windows 8 and all are now read only
This hasn't been an issue to use these on the new laptop, except for the fact that I cannot access my pictures and music and video files to sync my iPad or iPhone with iTunes. Each folder has to be ...
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Sync folder outside SkyDrive on OS X
After the recent 25 GB update, I wanted to sync my pictures with SkyDrive as I finally have enough space (My almost 10 GB Dropbox is full with other data and I need more than 10 GB for my pictures ...
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Can i sync my firefox bookmarks without Xmarks or such
I am happy with the firefox sync feature. I don't want to use Xmarks.
Can I syn them locally? Why is there no chrome addon to use the Mozilla servers to sync?
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Strange behaviour syncing between Outlook and Nokia Suite
Until recently I was syncing contacts no problem, now suddenly after syncing, Nokia Suite tells me there was a problem. I must repair or reinstall Outlook. I have just repaired Outlook with no ...
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What does it mean by “Sync the iPhone”? [closed]
This silly problem about 'sync' has certainly bothered me since a long time:
What do you mean by "Sync the iPhone"?
I used to get confused when doing such stuff because I do not know if my Mac ...
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Prevent auto-hide setting from syncing across Windows 8 computers
Here's my situation
I play iRacing in windowed mode on my desktop, using all of my screen space, so I enable auto-hiding of my task bar to give me the bottom portion of my screen to the game
I then ...
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Can I run a private Bittorrent Sync central server that replicates data but does not decrypt it?
Bittorrent just announced Bittorrent Sync, which as I understand it is a pure P2P sync solution without a central server that stores your data: Instead, all nodes in the network replicate amongst ...
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Does SkyDrive download files automatically?
When using all of my 7 GB of free storage, this seems to be a huge amount for my Surface RT or Windows Phone.
Does SkyDrive automatically download all of the 7 (or more) Gigabytes on each and every ...
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Sync RSS feeds on multiple Thunderbird installations and iPhone
What I want to achieve is to sync my RSS feed …
on my Thunderbird at work
on my thunderbird at home
on my iPhone
I'm sure a lot of people do have the same problem. How can I do this?
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Sync files from a RDP “local drive”
I have users who remotely log into a terminal server over the Internet.
They need the ability to synchronize their local drive (mapped through RDP settings) with their "user" drive on the terminal ...
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Android sync pictures both ways
I have a Galaxy s3 and I'm wondering if there is a way to sync pictures that is better than Dropbox
Right now I use Dropbox which just downloads all my pictures but it doesn't use the same folders ...
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How to delete unwanted BlackBerry contact list [closed]
I have a BlackBerry Curve 9300 setup which was previously setup to sync my gmail and I wanted to add contacts as well. I followed this tutorial, I have 6.0 Bundle 3106 (v6.0.0.723, Platform ...
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Syncing bookmarks in Firefox' own “Bookmarks” menu with bookmarks of Android (4.0) phone
Is it possible to make Firefox sync its own bookmarks (accessible from the "Bookmarks" menu) with the bookmarks on my phone (Galaxy S3 running Android 4.0), so that when I add a bookmark in Firefox on ...
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Is there already a test video with clock and secondly clicks?
Is there already a test video with timer (and frame counter) and sound (secondly loud clicks and quarter-secondly silent clicks and may be voice that speaks the time) somewhere?
It is needed to test ...
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Google Drive: Sync different directories, instead of putting everything in one folder
Say I have three different folders on my Windows laptop (school, work, and personal documents). These are in different places on my hard drive.
Is there anyway to sync those folders to my Google ...
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Outlook 2013 does not sync the drafts folder with my Outlook.com email
I'm using Outlook 2013 and have added my Outlook.com email address via the wizard and chose the Outlook.com option in that wizard. It's a custom domain (i.e. sid@mydomain.com thanks to ...
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How do I synchronize files between a server and serveral computers on LAN and Internet? [closed]
I'm trying to sync files in between multiple computers including my home server running Windows Server 2012 Essentials. I'm looking for a solution similar to Dropbox but managed by myself. I do not ...
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Syncing between “Kindle for PC” and “Kindle for iPhone”
I have a number of ebooks that I am managing using calibre - E-book management. These books are in a number of various formats (pdf, chm, epub, mobi...etc). I found a blog post that detailed using ...
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How to make Dropbox camera upload appear immediately on PC?
I use my android phone with dropbox and the camera upload function. But after it uploads images to cloud. The PC client doesn't do anything to download the image even after "pause syncing" and "resume ...
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Synchronize agenda/contacts/tasks from Outlook 2013 (64 bit) to Windows Mobile 6.5?
The subject says it all: how can I synchronize my agenda/contacts/tasks from Outlook 2013 (64 bit) to a Windows Mobile 6.5 device (HTC Touch2 in my case).
First thing I tried is Windows Mobile ...
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How can I have different backgrounds on different computers?
So I have two Windows 8 VMs. I want to set one's theme to blue/black colors and the others to red colors.
The reason I want these different is that I will be using the VMs simultaneously. One is 32 ...
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What is a good private file management/hosting system? [closed]
I use dropbox for syncing files that I am currently working on between computers, and Crashplan to keep everything backed up, but I am looking for a hosting solution to archive large amounts of more ...
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iPod Classic not syncing all library content?
My iPod Classic 160 GB, late 2009, has stopped syncing library content (using iTunes ver 10.6.1). The iPod still has 135.8 GB free memory. I have many Audible books in the "Books" library, but only ...
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How do you sync tabs between computers with Mozilla Firefox Sync?
Mozilla says that with Firefox Sync if you are working on one computer with 5 tabs open you can then switch to another computer or device and Sync can or will update the second computer with those ...
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Is there an rsync-like mode for WinSCP (or a similar tool)?
I need to be able to do a periodic sync of content off my Windows 7 x64 laptop to my offsite CentOS 6 webserver.
Is there a tool/mode like rysnc for WinSCP or similar?
For a variety or reasons, ...
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How to echo message after WinScp synchronizes any files
I have synchronized local and remote file using WinScp and scheduled with windows task scheduler That execute the script once in a day and download the file if the remote file is new or updated, ...
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Synchronize single file with WinScp
I am trying to synchronize a single file with WinScp. But it is downloading that file every time the script runs. But I want it to download that file only when there is any update in the remote file.
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How to edit FTP files with VIM and avoid typing the hostname everytime?
I need to edit remote files with vim, that are on a FTP server. THere's no SSH or SFTP access. Just FTP. I've tried syncing via curlftpfs, the files appeared in a local dir, but i cannot write to ...
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How to synchronize file changes with files on the FTP server?
My project files are in the local folder in D:\xampp\htdocs\mysite
The same files are on my FTP server.
A git repository would exist only locally in a .git directory to keep track.
I want to be able ...
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My iPod classic won't load music from my new computer [closed]
The machine I used to sync my iPod classic to recently died an untimely death. Fortunately I had a backup of my music library and restored that to a replacement computer which I have authorized ...
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Dropbox takes hours to sync & shows different modified times (coincidentially in the future)
Dropbox is taking hours to synchronize. I can't tell exactly how long because the time stamps on the website make no sense - they say the files were modified tomorrow. My netbook (Windows XP) says ...
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Sync Folder between Linux and Mac
I have an always-on Linux box in the cloud. On that machine, there are some files I would like to (bidirectionally!) sync to my local machine - my iMac (running 10.8).
The files I would like to sync ...
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Best approach to managing change of Windows Phone and Owner in shared Zune instance
I've got an HTC HD7 Win7 phone, which I sync with my home laptop (Win7), using Zune.
I've just got a new HTC Windows 8S which I want to do the same thing with - but as you can probably guess I want ...
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Can I sync an Android phone with Lotus Notes Contacts and Calendar?
In my office, they currently use Windows Mobile phones, mostly for legacy reasons. Contacts and calendar are synced from Lotus Notes like this:
Lotus Server → Lotus Notes → Lotus ...
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Sync content from my iPad to iTunes? i.e. “reverse” syncing
I recently had to reset my PC back to factory settings which lost my entire iTunes library. I still have my music and other files on my iPad and want to sync it back to the PC.
Upon syncing it only ...
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Sync files Red Hat Linux script using PHP
I have two production red hat servers hosting a PHP web form. Let’s call them serv1 and serv2. Both servers host the same data (for redundancy and load bearing) and pull info from the same database.
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Song count is not syncing with iTunes
I noticed recently that the song counts in iTunes weren't increasing (despite me listening to them quite a bit on my iPhone). I had switched to wireless syncing within the last couple months, so I ...
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sync two system that act as failsafe for each other. side by side but using different routers and ips
The setup is pretty simple and I have it working through a VPN already but extremely slow and probably not the best idea.
Both systems have a large directory full of documents used with a SQL ...
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Synching Outlook.com with Hotmail.com
I have both a Hotmail.com account and an Outlook.com account. Is it possible to sync contacts (People) of the two? I see an import feature (from Gmail etc.) but not from Hotmail.
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What is the best way to merge two sets of files, but for duplicates to select the older file in Windows?
I have stumbled into a dumb usage case. I want to merge two folders in a particular way (I guess these are called folders now, I still think of them as directories, but whatever). The folders have ...
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Two hard drives replication: which architecture to pick? [closed]
I've two 3 TB hard drives and I would like to setup a replication between them. They are in external cases and linked to a (home) server (through USB). My question is how to setup a replication ...
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iPhone not syncing with iTunes
In iTunes under apps tab, it list all the apps which I have in my iTunes account. When I click on the Install button of the app, button name gets changed to will install & also on the right side ...
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How can I synchronize two audio files?
I've got many audio files of the same scene, but recorded with different devices.
I would like to automaticaly synchronize the sources.
I searched the web for a solution an I understood that I should ...
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How to perfectly synchronize Subtitles with movie?
How to perfectly synchronize Subtitles with movie? i use VLC
