On Tue, 14 May 2019 00:49:47 -0000 (UTC), Arlen G. Holder wrote:

BTW, I forgot to mention the GoodSync installer is sophomorically written
in that it's in the 1/10th of 1% of all installers that is too stupid to
even ask where it should go.

Even worse, when I deleted the GoodSync app, it phoned home, where I gave
them an earful on the piece of **** installer that doesn't even ask where
to go.

As always, the immense price of freeware is in the effort to find the best
ones, where it's always better if someone else already paid that price for
you.

Moving on though, SyncBack Free was even worse, but in a different way.
o SyncBack Free doesn't appear to recognize MTP connected devices

Here's a quick log, but it seems that SyncBack won't work unless I turn on
the free WebDAV server on the Android device and then run, on Windows:
net use X: \\androidip\webDavRoot /p
Which I don't want to do unless I absolutely have to.

o *SyncBack Free*
https://www.2brightsparks.com/assets/software/SyncBack_Setup.exe
I saved the installer to c:\installer\network\autosync\syncback\.
It wants to go in C:\Program Files (x86)\2BrightSparks\SyncBackFree
I put it in C:\app\network\autosync\syncback
When you launch it, you get a very simple GUI.
Turn off the update checks as usual.
Then open a new profile to copy files back and forth
Profiles New (Create a "New Profile" = test1)
What type of profile do you want to create?
(o)Backup
(_)Synchronize
(_)Mirror
Click the dropdown list to select the location of your files
Select "Internal/external drive, network path, etc."
Then click Source - but it only sees "mounted" devices, apparently.

So I uninstalled it, where the stupid installer wouldn't run since it said
syncback was running but it wasn't "visibly" running, so I had to kill it
in the task manager first.

At least it didn't phone home upon uninstalling....