Editor’s Note: This article, published in our August 2008 issue, includes information on .Mac, which will be replaced by MobileMe in early July. Any instructions may change significantly. Most people ...

There’s nothing inherently wrong with Dropbox, Google Drive, or whatever popular service you use to back files up to the cloud and keep them synchronized between your multiple desktops and laptops.

To sync files between two computers, you must connect both to the same network and make sure you've set the correct installation options for each computer. The best way to do this is to uninstall ...

++robocopy<BR><BR>rsync ?? Why the heck would anyone want to use rsync on a Windows machine ? It has it's place in *nix world but none here: it simply doesn't understand the file system well enough to ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is an excerpt from Take Control of Syncing in Tiger, a $10 electronic book available for download from TidBits Electronic Publishing. The 135-page ebook covers ...

I recently have been reminded--unpleasantly--that Cygwin does not support files larger than 2 GiB. Fortunately, I lost only one file, which I was able to restore from backup. Unfortunately, there's no ...

Synchronize! X Plus 1.1.1 is a file synchronization and backup utility for personal data. New in this version: Fixed a problem which could cause a crash when syncing large numbers of items with ...

These days, it seems like almost everyone in business carries a laptop, tablet or other portable computing device. Additionally, it's not uncommon to see some business travelers carrying two or more ...