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January 9th 13, 04:43 PM
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I would like to learn how to synchronize my working files on three
desktop computers and one laptop computer. The desktop computers are all on a household network with Cat 5 Ethernet connections to the Netgear firewall/modem/router. The laptop has a Wi-Fi connection to this same setup. Is there an easy way to set all these computers up such that any new documents or modified old documents on one computer will be transferred/synchronized with the other computers? One desktop computer has Windows 8 as its operating system. The second desktop has Windows 7 as its operating system. The third desktop has Windows XP as its operating system. The laptop has Windows Vista Home Basic as its operating system. My brain is a bit old and rusty and I haven't yet figured this all out. Gordon 
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January 9th 13, 09:11 PM
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On 1/9/2013 10:43 AM, Gordon wrote:
I would like to learn how to synchronize my working files on three desktop computers and one laptop computer. The desktop computers are all on a household network with Cat 5 Ethernet connections to the Netgear firewall/modem/router. The laptop has a Wi-Fi connection to this same setup. Is there an easy way to set all these computers up such that any new documents or modified old documents on one computer will be transferred/synchronized with the other computers? One desktop computer has Windows 8 as its operating system. The second desktop has Windows 7 as its operating system. The third desktop has Windows XP as its operating system. The laptop has Windows Vista Home Basic as its operating system. My brain is a bit old and rusty and I haven't yet figured this all out. Gordon Well I have two favorites. One is SkyDrive. Not that one in the Windows 8 Metro Apps, but Microsoft has a download version which automatically syncs all of your Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 machines. It isn't XP compatible though (although you can access your SkyDrive through a website), so maybe that one is out for you. Works well as long as you don't change 100's of MB at a shot. Plus everything is also kept in the cloud. So I wouldn't use this one to sync private data. But other things are ok. The other one is my longtime favorite. One of the best ones out there is called SyncBack (the freeware one). Plus it is very fast. SkyDrive apps https://apps.live.com/skydrive SyncBack Free - freeware version of the ultimate data backup software http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12 Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 7 SP1
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January 9th 13, 11:05 PM
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On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:11:54 -0600, BillW50 wrote:
On 1/9/2013 10:43 AM, Gordon wrote: I would like to learn how to synchronize my working files on three desktop computers and one laptop computer. The desktop computers are all on a household network with Cat 5 Ethernet connections to the Netgear firewall/modem/router. The laptop has a Wi-Fi connection to this same setup. Is there an easy way to set all these computers up such that any new documents or modified old documents on one computer will be transferred/synchronized with the other computers? One desktop computer has Windows 8 as its operating system. The second desktop has Windows 7 as its operating system. The third desktop has Windows XP as its operating system. The laptop has Windows Vista Home Basic as its operating system. My brain is a bit old and rusty and I haven't yet figured this all out. Gordon Well I have two favorites. One is SkyDrive. Not that one in the Windows 8 Metro Apps, but Microsoft has a download version which automatically syncs all of your Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 machines. It isn't XP compatible though (although you can access your SkyDrive through a website), so maybe that one is out for you. Works well as long as you don't change 100's of MB at a shot. Plus everything is also kept in the cloud. So I wouldn't use this one to sync private data. But other things are ok. The other one is my longtime favorite. One of the best ones out there is called SyncBack (the freeware one). Plus it is very fast. SkyDrive apps https://apps.live.com/skydrive SyncBack Free - freeware version of the ultimate data backup software http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html Thanks, Bill. This is what has me stalled out, so to speak. I have a lot of very private financial information on these computers and would be very reticent to put this up in the cloud. I am hoping to keep these computers fully synchronized, just in case one or maybe two of them go kaput. I really want a fully reliable backup that would be easy to use and get on with my financial stuff. It may be the best way to go is to use external hard drives and make copies of my working files regularly but not try to synchronize my three desktop computers. The laptop isn't important in this work. I use it primarily as a means for communicating when I'm away from home. Gordon
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January 9th 13, 11:20 PM
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On 1/9/2013 5:05 PM, Gordon wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:11:54 -0600, wrote: On 1/9/2013 10:43 AM, Gordon wrote: I would like to learn how to synchronize my working files on three desktop computers and one laptop computer. The desktop computers are all on a household network with Cat 5 Ethernet connections to the Netgear firewall/modem/router. The laptop has a Wi-Fi connection to this same setup. Is there an easy way to set all these computers up such that any new documents or modified old documents on one computer will be transferred/synchronized with the other computers? One desktop computer has Windows 8 as its operating system. The second desktop has Windows 7 as its operating system. The third desktop has Windows XP as its operating system. The laptop has Windows Vista Home Basic as its operating system. My brain is a bit old and rusty and I haven't yet figured this all out. Gordon Well I have two favorites. One is SkyDrive. Not that one in the Windows 8 Metro Apps, but Microsoft has a download version which automatically syncs all of your Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 machines. It isn't XP compatible though (although you can access your SkyDrive through a website), so maybe that one is out for you. Works well as long as you don't change 100's of MB at a shot. Plus everything is also kept in the cloud. So I wouldn't use this one to sync private data. But other things are ok. The other one is my longtime favorite. One of the best ones out there is called SyncBack (the freeware one). Plus it is very fast. SkyDrive apps https://apps.live.com/skydrive SyncBack Free - freeware version of the ultimate data backup software http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html Thanks, Bill. This is what has me stalled out, so to speak. I have a lot of very private financial information on these computers and would be very reticent to put this up in the cloud. I am hoping to keep these computers fully synchronized, just in case one or maybe two of them go kaput. I really want a fully reliable backup that would be easy to use and get on with my financial stuff. It may be the best way to go is to use external hard drives and make copies of my working files regularly but not try to synchronize my three desktop computers. The laptop isn't important in this work. I use it primarily as a means for communicating when I'm away from home. Gordon SyncBack isn't cloud based. I use it to sync my 20+ computers here. The free version you will give errors if an application has file(s) opened (so close them first or pay for one of the payware versions). I normally use a portable HD to sync instead of the local network (it is much faster). But SyncBack should work fine over the local network too. I know I have done this sometimes with SyncBack. So in my case I have over 20 copies of the same data and they all stay synced. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12 Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 7 SP1
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January 10th 13, 03:34 AM
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On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:43:48 -0600, Gordon wrote:
I would like to learn how to synchronize my working files on three desktop computers and one laptop computer. The desktop computers are all on a household network with Cat 5 Ethernet connections to the Netgear firewall/modem/router. The laptop has a Wi-Fi connection to this same setup. Is there an easy way to set all these computers up such that any new documents or modified old documents on one computer will be transferred/synchronized with the other computers? One desktop computer has Windows 8 as its operating system. The second desktop has Windows 7 as its operating system. The third desktop has Windows XP as its operating system. The laptop has Windows Vista Home Basic as its operating system. My brain is a bit old and rusty and I haven't yet figured this all out. Gordon I use Allway Sync manually to synchronize my phone with my computer, but it seems to have automatic synchronizing too. The help file says it will sync when an external device is connected, or automatically when a file is changed, depending on what you have and how you configure the program. http://allwaysync.com/ -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
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January 10th 13, 09:32 AM
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On 10/01/2013 03:34, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:43:48 -0600, Gordon wrote: I would like to learn how to synchronize my working files on three desktop computers and one laptop computer. The desktop computers are all on a household network with Cat 5 Ethernet connections to the Netgear firewall/modem/router. The laptop has a Wi-Fi connection to this same setup. Is there an easy way to set all these computers up such that any new documents or modified old documents on one computer will be transferred/synchronized with the other computers? One desktop computer has Windows 8 as its operating system. The second desktop has Windows 7 as its operating system. The third desktop has Windows XP as its operating system. The laptop has Windows Vista Home Basic as its operating system. My brain is a bit old and rusty and I haven't yet figured this all out. Gordon I use Allway Sync manually to synchronize my phone with my computer, but it seems to have automatic synchronizing too. The help file says it will sync when an external device is connected, or automatically when a file is changed, depending on what you have and how you configure the program. http://allwaysync.com/ Is your phone an android device? Been looking for something to sync files between my Samsung tablet and the home, windows 7, pc...
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January 10th 13, 09:33 AM
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On 10/01/2013 03:34, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:43:48 -0600, Gordon wrote: I would like to learn how to synchronize my working files on three desktop computers and one laptop computer. The desktop computers are all on a household network with Cat 5 Ethernet connections to the Netgear firewall/modem/router. The laptop has a Wi-Fi connection to this same setup. Is there an easy way to set all these computers up such that any new documents or modified old documents on one computer will be transferred/synchronized with the other computers? One desktop computer has Windows 8 as its operating system. The second desktop has Windows 7 as its operating system. The third desktop has Windows XP as its operating system. The laptop has Windows Vista Home Basic as its operating system. My brain is a bit old and rusty and I haven't yet figured this all out. Gordon I use Allway Sync manually to synchronize my phone with my computer, but it seems to have automatic synchronizing too. The help file says it will sync when an external device is connected, or automatically when a file is changed, depending on what you have and how you configure the program. http://allwaysync.com/ Hi - is your phone an android device by any chance? Been looking for a way to sync files between my samsung tablet and the home (win 7) pc...
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January 10th 13, 09:43 AM
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Peter Roe wrote:
Is your phone an android device? Been looking for something to sync files between my Samsung tablet and the home, windows 7, pc... Foldersync on android can browse, copy and sync between folders on android and FTP/WEBDAV/CIFS etc servers and various of the cloud storage providers (box, dropbox, skydrive, S3, google drive, sugar sync, ubuntu one, netdocs and on and on)
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January 10th 13, 09:59 AM
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On 09/01/2013 23:05, Gordon wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:11:54 -0600, BillW50 wrote: On 1/9/2013 10:43 AM, Gordon wrote: I would like to learn how to synchronize my working files on three desktop computers and one laptop computer. The desktop computers are all on a household network with Cat 5 Ethernet connections to the Netgear firewall/modem/router. The laptop has a Wi-Fi connection to this same setup. Is there an easy way to set all these computers up such that any new documents or modified old documents on one computer will be transferred/synchronized with the other computers? One desktop computer has Windows 8 as its operating system. The second desktop has Windows 7 as its operating system. The third desktop has Windows XP as its operating system. The laptop has Windows Vista Home Basic as its operating system. My brain is a bit old and rusty and I haven't yet figured this all out. Gordon Well I have two favorites. One is SkyDrive. Not that one in the Windows 8 Metro Apps, but Microsoft has a download version which automatically syncs all of your Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 machines. It isn't XP compatible though (although you can access your SkyDrive through a website), so maybe that one is out for you. Works well as long as you don't change 100's of MB at a shot. Plus everything is also kept in the cloud. So I wouldn't use this one to sync private data. But other things are ok. The other one is my longtime favorite. One of the best ones out there is called SyncBack (the freeware one). Plus it is very fast. SkyDrive apps https://apps.live.com/skydrive SyncBack Free - freeware version of the ultimate data backup software http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html Thanks, Bill. This is what has me stalled out, so to speak. I have a lot of very private financial information on these computers and would be very reticent to put this up in the cloud. I am hoping to keep I'll wager any cloud storage facility is far more secure than your home network. I'll bet you log in with administrator privileges on your machines eh? As with any system, the weak link is the user and the weakest link is the users password. Cloud security is the least of your worries.
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January 10th 13, 12:46 PM
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On 1/10/2013 3:59 AM, Desk Rabbit wrote:
On 09/01/2013 23:05, Gordon wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:11:54 -0600, BillW50 wrote: On 1/9/2013 10:43 AM, Gordon wrote: I would like to learn how to synchronize my working files on three desktop computers and one laptop computer. The desktop computers are all on a household network with Cat 5 Ethernet connections to the Netgear firewall/modem/router. The laptop has a Wi-Fi connection to this same setup. Is there an easy way to set all these computers up such that any new documents or modified old documents on one computer will be transferred/synchronized with the other computers? One desktop computer has Windows 8 as its operating system. The second desktop has Windows 7 as its operating system. The third desktop has Windows XP as its operating system. The laptop has Windows Vista Home Basic as its operating system. My brain is a bit old and rusty and I haven't yet figured this all out. Gordon Well I have two favorites. One is SkyDrive. Not that one in the Windows 8 Metro Apps, but Microsoft has a download version which automatically syncs all of your Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 machines. It isn't XP compatible though (although you can access your SkyDrive through a website), so maybe that one is out for you. Works well as long as you don't change 100's of MB at a shot. Plus everything is also kept in the cloud. So I wouldn't use this one to sync private data. But other things are ok. The other one is my longtime favorite. One of the best ones out there is called SyncBack (the freeware one). Plus it is very fast. SkyDrive apps https://apps.live.com/skydrive SyncBack Free - freeware version of the ultimate data backup software http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html Thanks, Bill. This is what has me stalled out, so to speak. I have a lot of very private financial information on these computers and would be very reticent to put this up in the cloud. I am hoping to keep I'll wager any cloud storage facility is far more secure than your home network. I'll bet you log in with administrator privileges on your machines eh? As with any system, the weak link is the user and the weakest link is the users password. Cloud security is the least of your worries. Keep dreaming! I've been using computers since the 70's and I have never been hacked into yet. But 90% of companies that has been polled, has at least once in the last 12 months. http://www.technewsdaily.com/6942-90...y-hackers.html -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12 Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 7 SP1
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January 10th 13, 01:03 PM
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On 1/10/2013 1:46 PM, BillW50 wrote:
Keep dreaming! I've been using computers since the 70's and I have never been hacked into yet. Braggart. Liar. Idiot. -- Alias
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January 10th 13, 01:32 PM
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On 10/01/2013 09:43, Andy Burns wrote:
Peter Roe wrote: Is your phone an android device? Been looking for something to sync files between my Samsung tablet and the home, windows 7, pc... Foldersync on android can browse, copy and sync between folders on android and FTP/WEBDAV/CIFS etc servers and various of the cloud storage providers (box, dropbox, skydrive, S3, google drive, sugar sync, ubuntu one, netdocs and on and on) Thanks - will take a look. Apologies for double posting - no idea how that happened.
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January 10th 13, 10:30 PM
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On 10-Jan-13 2:34 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:43:48 -0600, Gordon wrote: I use Allway Sync manually to synchronize my phone with my computer, http://allwaysync.com/ I do this too. On the PC side I use Win 7 or Win 8 (I have multiple PCs). On the phone side (SGSIII with Jellybean now/previously ICS) I use SwiFTP to set the phone up as an FTP server. Then I just plug in the USB cable between them and tell allwaysync to sync between the phone's FTP server and the relevant PC folder/tree I want. Note that SwiFTP defaults to the SDcard folder in the phone, however under Advanced settings you can change it to wherever you want. YMMV
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January 10th 13, 11:29 PM
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On 1/10/2013 7:03 AM, Alias wrote:
On 1/10/2013 1:46 PM, BillW50 wrote: Keep dreaming! I've been using computers since the 70's and I have never been hacked into yet. Braggart. Liar. Idiot. Time to tell us about how to contact your medical doctor so we can tell them what you are up to. As I covered this with you before and your memory seems to be about 60 seconds. If you have no medical doctor, we need to find you one. If you refuse, we need to hand you over to the legal system and they can do with you what they wish. After all, terrorizing others day after day is very serious offense. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12 Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8
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January 11th 13, 04:46 AM
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:32:19 +0000, Peter Roe wrote:
On 10/01/2013 03:34, Gene E. Bloch wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:43:48 -0600, Gordon wrote: I would like to learn how to synchronize my working files on three desktop computers and one laptop computer. The desktop computers are all on a household network with Cat 5 Ethernet connections to the Netgear firewall/modem/router. The laptop has a Wi-Fi connection to this same setup. Is there an easy way to set all these computers up such that any new documents or modified old documents on one computer will be transferred/synchronized with the other computers? One desktop computer has Windows 8 as its operating system. The second desktop has Windows 7 as its operating system. The third desktop has Windows XP as its operating system. The laptop has Windows Vista Home Basic as its operating system. My brain is a bit old and rusty and I haven't yet figured this all out. Gordon I use Allway Sync manually to synchronize my phone with my computer, but it seems to have automatic synchronizing too. The help file says it will sync when an external device is connected, or automatically when a file is changed, depending on what you have and how you configure the program. http://allwaysync.com/ Is your phone an android device? Been looking for something to sync files between my Samsung tablet and the home, windows 7, pc... It is an Android phone. Andy Burns's post looks interesting, but I also synchronize my camera SD card and one or two other things, so a solution running on the phone is not so practical for me. But please note: I haven't yet looked closely at his idea, so I might be misinterpreting :-) -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
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