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Dropbox workaround
I used to sync data files between my desktop computer running Windows
XP and my laptop runiin Windows 7 using Dropbox. Since Dropbox stopped supporting Windows XP yesterday, I've had to develop a workaround. Here it is, in case it helps anyone facing a similar problem -- one line in a batch file: XXCOPY J:\Dropbox\*.* G:\Stevedoc\Dropbox\ /BN /s /y Steve Hayes http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm http://khanya.wordpress.com |
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Steve Hayes wrote:
I used to sync data files between my desktop computer running Windows XP and my laptop runiin Windows 7 using Dropbox. Since Dropbox stopped supporting Windows XP yesterday, I've had to develop a workaround. Here it is, in case it helps anyone facing a similar problem -- one line in a batch file: XXCOPY J:\Dropbox\*.* G:\Stevedoc\Dropbox\ /BN /s /y Why keep DB at all if it no longer does what you want it to do? Delete it and setup a network share, etc. |
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Dropbox workaround
Steve Hayes wrote:
I used to sync data files between my desktop computer running Windows XP and my laptop runiin Windows 7 using Dropbox. Since Dropbox stopped supporting Windows XP yesterday, I've had to develop a workaround. Here it is, in case it helps anyone facing a similar problem -- one line in a batch file: XXCOPY J:\Dropbox\*.* G:\Stevedoc\Dropbox\ /BN /s /y Might want to check out MS SyncToy. |
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Dropbox workaround
Steve Hayes wrote:
I used to sync data files between my desktop computer running Windows XP and my laptop runiin Windows 7 using Dropbox. Since Dropbox stopped supporting Windows XP yesterday, I've had to develop a workaround. Here it is, in case it helps anyone facing a similar problem -- one line in a batch file: XXCOPY J:\Dropbox\*.* G:\Stevedoc\Dropbox\ /BN /s /y sig spam omitted in reply So one of those destinations must be a mapped network drive. Then why do you need Dropbox at all? There are lots of sync tools, like SyncBack Free. You used one but between Dropbox folders yet with drive mapping the sync could be between any set of folders. |
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:18:49 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
Steve Hayes wrote: I used to sync data files between my desktop computer running Windows XP and my laptop runiin Windows 7 using Dropbox. Since Dropbox stopped supporting Windows XP yesterday, I've had to develop a workaround. Here it is, in case it helps anyone facing a similar problem -- one line in a batch file: XXCOPY J:\Dropbox\*.* G:\Stevedoc\Dropbox\ /BN /s /y sig spam omitted in reply Any decent newsreader will automatically omit the sig in a reply -- so why do you need to say so? So one of those destinations must be a mapped network drive. Then why do you need Dropbox at all? There are lots of sync tools, like SyncBack Free. You used one but between Dropbox folders yet with drive mapping the sync could be between any set of folders. Well, I might have said thanks, I'll have a look at it, but the troll comment above makes me wonder about your bona fides and that of the software you recommend. Steve Hayes http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm http://khanya.wordpress.com |
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Dropbox workaround
Steve Hayes wrote:
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:18:49 -0500, VanguardLH wrote: Steve Hayes wrote: I used to sync data files between my desktop computer running Windows XP and my laptop runiin Windows 7 using Dropbox. Since Dropbox stopped supporting Windows XP yesterday, I've had to develop a workaround. Here it is, in case it helps anyone facing a similar problem -- one line in a batch file: XXCOPY J:\Dropbox\*.* G:\Stevedoc\Dropbox\ /BN /s /y sig spam omitted in reply Any decent newsreader will automatically omit the sig in a reply -- so why do you need to say so? You did NOT put your signature content after a signature delimiter line (dash dash space newline). So how could ANY newsreader know you added a signature? Yes, my NNTP client does strip out sigs but they actually have to be sigs. So one of those destinations must be a mapped network drive. Then why do you need Dropbox at all? There are lots of sync tools, like SyncBack Free. You used one but between Dropbox folders yet with drive mapping the sync could be between any set of folders. Well, I might have said thanks, I'll have a look at it, but the troll comment above makes me wonder about your bona fides and that of the software you recommend. Steve Hayes http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm http://khanya.wordpress.com See, still NOT a sig. Mine was not a troll comment (and I made it very short). It was a hint to you that you did NOT actually delimit that off-topic content (spam) as a signature; however, rarely are signatures ever on-topic if anything more than how to deobfuscate your e-mail address in your From header should you ever want to take a conversation offline (which is typically considered rude as you yank away the conversation from the community where you published it). You use your signature (which is not actually a signature) to spam your web sites. You are posting using an ancient version of Forte Agent. As I recall from comments by other such users, that old version does NOT prepend the "-- \n" string to the signature. The *user* must prepend that string to their signature content to actually delimit that content as a signature. Back to on-topic ... You never mentioned how you were connecting the two hosts. Since all you showed were drive letters and that someone one was for one host and the other for another host (hence the sync you mentioned across hosts) then it seemed one of them must be a mapped drive. Well, if you have a mapped drive then you don't need any cloud tools to push copies of files up to some server from one host and then down from the server to another host. Paul already mentioned SyncToy. I remember using that one in the past. Alas, I think Microsoft destroyed their Tweaktoys page for the XP tools so you have to get it elsewhere. I use SyncBack Free. It is a crippled version of the program but usually sufficient. Where it fails (and so do many of the freebies) is in handling inuse (locked) files. It won't copy those. XXcopy is a console-mode program and probably does everything you want, and because it doesn't work with cloud services also leads me to believe that one of those drive letters, probably G:, is a mapped drive. The Dropbox folders were special ones monitored by the Dropbox client program. Files you put in there and only in those monitored folders got synchronized up to and down from cloud storage. Since you are no longer using Dropbox, and because using the cloud as an intermediary transfer hub is not a requirement, like for sync across hosts on different networks or across the Internet, it seems odd you still use folders named Dropbox. Maybe you got into the habit that to cross-host sync meant putting files into those folders. If you are using a local sync tool and only going across your own intranet using mapped drives then the files could be anywhere, like in their original folders. Unclear why you ever needed Dropbox in the first place. Since your example is across your own intranet to a mapped drive, a cloud service was never required. Maybe your example was poor in that you showed that you now only do synchronizing to/from a mapped drive but in the past you did do synchronization of your hosts across the Internet. Alas, I do not have any Windows XP hosts anymore (you did cross-post to a Window 7 newsgroup) and have not bothered to find sync-across-the-Internet equivalents for Windows XP. It really depends if they have local clients that will run under Windows XP. An online search on the string "across internet file synchronization windows xp -time" found some candidates, like Allway Sync (there is a free version), that supports all the way back to Windows 2000. SyncBack Free says it supports FTP for file transfer between hosts. So you could use that for hosts across the Internet as long as their IP addresses were static or you used a DDNS (dynamic DNS) lookup service to assign a hostname to your hosts (e.g., OpenDNS, NoIP). Presumably if it access folders on different hosts across an FTP connection then that connection could be local (intranet) or external (Internet) - as long as your firewall didn't block the inbound connection request from your other host. SyncBack Free still lists Windows XP as supported. I've never used SyncBack Free with an FTP server (you will need to setup an FTP server on one or maybe both hosts). As I recall, Windows XP comes with both an FTP server and client but you have to elect to install them (Add/Remove Programs - Add/Remove Windows Components). However, if you're already using a mapped drive and don't need to sync across the Internet then SyncBack Free and even XXCopy are sufficient. You mentioned Dropbox with is to use a cloud service for sync across the Internet, so it was confusing that your "solution" was to use a mapped drive to another host on your intranet. |
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:54:48 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
Steve Hayes wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:18:49 -0500, VanguardLH wrote: Steve Hayes wrote: I used to sync data files between my desktop computer running Windows XP and my laptop runiin Windows 7 using Dropbox. Since Dropbox stopped supporting Windows XP yesterday, I've had to develop a workaround. Here it is, in case it helps anyone facing a similar problem -- one line in a batch file: XXCOPY J:\Dropbox\*.* G:\Stevedoc\Dropbox\ /BN /s /y sig spam omitted in reply Any decent newsreader will automatically omit the sig in a reply -- so why do you need to say so? You did NOT put your signature content after a signature delimiter line (dash dash space newline). So how could ANY newsreader know you added a signature? Yes, my NNTP client does strip out sigs but they actually have to be sigs. So one of those destinations must be a mapped network drive. Then why do you need Dropbox at all? There are lots of sync tools, like SyncBack Free. You used one but between Dropbox folders yet with drive mapping the sync could be between any set of folders. Well, I might have said thanks, I'll have a look at it, but the troll comment above makes me wonder about your bona fides and that of the software you recommend. Steve Hayes http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm http://khanya.wordpress.com See, still NOT a sig. Mine was not a troll comment (and I made it very short). It was a hint to you that you did NOT actually delimit that off-topic content (spam) as a signature; however, rarely are signatures ever on-topic if anything more than how to deobfuscate your e-mail address in your From header should you ever want to take a conversation offline (which is typically considered rude as you yank away the conversation from the community where you published it). You use your signature (which is not actually a signature) to spam your web sites. Oops, my bad. Fixed now, I hope. -- Steve Hayes http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm http://khanya.wordpress.com |
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En el artículo , Steve Hayes
escribió: Any decent newsreader will automatically omit the sig in a reply -- so why do you need to say so? Because he's a sanctimonious bore? Well, I might have said thanks, I'll have a look at it SyncBack is very good (I tried it out but didn't use it for some reason I now forget). MS's SyncToy is also good. For syncing, I use Bvckup (yes, it's spelt like that). Simple, easy to use and very very fast. It's one of the few pieces of software I've actually felt worth paying for (and I did). https://www.bvckup2.com/ -- (\_/) (='.'=) systemd: the Linux version of Windows 10 (")_(") |
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Dropbox workaround
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:54:48 -0500
VanguardLH wrote: From: VanguardLH Subject: Dropbox workaround useless **** word wall removed |
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On 31 Aug 2016, Steve Hayes wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-xp: Oops, my bad. Fixed now, I hope. It is! Thank you! |
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:26:36 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
wrote: En el artÃ*culo , Steve Hayes escribió: Any decent newsreader will automatically omit the sig in a reply -- so why do you need to say so? Because he's a sanctimonious bore? Well, I might have said thanks, I'll have a look at it SyncBack is very good (I tried it out but didn't use it for some reason I now forget). MS's SyncToy is also good. For syncing, I use Bvckup (yes, it's spelt like that). Simple, easy to use and very very fast. It's one of the few pieces of software I've actually felt worth paying for (and I did). https://www.bvckup2.com/ Thanks, I'll have a look at both SyncBack and BvckUp. I won't look at anything from MS because they are quite likely to make like Dropbox and stop it working on XP, because they are "no longer supporting" it. -- Steve Hayes http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm http://khanya.wordpress.com |
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On 01/09/2016 19:57, Steve Hayes wrote:
I won't look at anything from MS because they are quite likely to make like Dropbox and stop it working on XP, because they are "no longer supporting" it. You need your head to be examined. Microsoft is going Open Source for most of its products for the Cloud Computing and so access to its cloud based OneDrive will be possible in any browser that is latest and supports scripts. Microsoft's SQL Server is going on Linux so that Linux users can start developing on it; Windows 10 2nd edition has some support for Linux; ASP has become Open Source, C# has become Open Source. The list keeps expanding and you have decided to shun Microsoft without even trying it. Do you want to continue living in huts in South Africa. Have you forgotten to take your meds today? Those loonies at ANC will deal with you. -- If you want to filter all of my posts then please read this article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/organize-your-messages-using-filters In step 7 select "Delete" With over 350 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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Steve Hayes wrote:
On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:26:36 +0100, Mike Tomlinson wrote: I won't look at anything from MS because they are quite likely to make like Dropbox and stop it working on XP, because they are "no longer supporting" it. My MS synctoy works just fine on xp3 and w7. I use it every few days between several computers for work data. There is no support for it. Not needed for this very simple program. It's a free d/l from ms. |
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