Mircosoft's SyncToy

[ScottBuckel]

I was wondering what people experience is with the Microsoft SyncToy is?  I briefly talked to several high volume photographers and they consider it to be an essential part of their archiving process. 

I tried it out last night and it found that I had about 1000 images that were not in the main archive, so my first impression is a good one.  It seems to be pretty powerful and I think I only touched the surface of what it can do last night.

Scott

[Niall Horley]

I have not tried Microsofts Sync Toy, but instead use Robocopy (I think it stands for robust file copy) It is a comand line tool and I manually run it, but it is very powerful and quick. I use it to backup my images.

Interestingly it is now shipped with Vista whereas in the past it was part of the Resource Kit.

Niall

[ScottBuckel]

One of the things that really caught my interest is that SyncToy allows one to set up folder pairs.  So I have it set up to three different foler pairs right now.  I have been keeping dng, jpegs and tiffs in independent folders/drives and now with just a couple of clicks they can be synced.  I think I have heard that you can have the program run at fixed times, but I have not seen how one does that as i think I will poke around in it a bit in the future. 

I di think some of the content in the mircosoft prophoto forum were interesting.  (www.microsoft.com/prophoto)

Scott

[Angels]

I have used SyncToy ... which started to annoy me somewhen.

Since then i am happy with Beyond Compare2 which has scripting capabilities.

[ScottBuckel]

Angles -

I'm curious what about it was annoying?  I have had it around for a couple weeks and it seems really simple.

Scott