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Old May 14th 19, 06:51 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.freeware
Arlen G. Holder
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Default Do you have an existing working automatic sync setup for all your devices on your home LAN?

Well, now it's time to test Zag's favorite, where we must note that this
will fail like the previous few failed simply because it may require a
drive letter - which Zag warned me about.
o *DSynchronize Freeware*
http://dimiodati.altervista.org/zip/dsynchronize.zip

I'm very familiar with running either an FTP or WebDAV server where FTP
allows drive letters if you know what you're doing, as does WebDAV (which
works better than FTP IMHO), but I don't want to do that. It should just
connect since the phone is clearly connected over MTP & USB to Windows, and
certainly the first tested program, GoodSync, did that.

Anyway, to test it out, I unpacked the zip file located in
C:\installer\network\autosync\dsynchronize\dsynchr onie.zip
This created a "dsynchronize" folder which I placed in
C:\app\network\autosync\dsynchronize
Where I made a shortcut to
C:\app\network\autosync\dsynchronize\DSynchronize. exe

Running that shortcut, up pops the GUI with two sides, thankfully not
called "Left Side" and "Right Side" but the more logical "Sources" and
"Destinations".

If you right click in the "Sources" area, one of the many selections is
"Browse", where, unfortunately, as Zag intimated, you can't browse to the
MTP connected sd card on the phone over USB.

Otherwise, it seems like a nice program, which has a ton of options which
you can easily see with a list of checkboxes that is so huge that I won't
type them here (about 40 different checkboxes).

Since I am not seeking to sync files across the same device, there's no
advantage to this tool, unless I assign a drive letter to the Android
mobile device, which I could do, but that was never the goal.

There doesn't appear to be anything to uninstall, as you just remove the
executable, so that's a nicety of the program.

So, while it's a nice program, it doesn't fit the bill unfortunately.
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