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A popular free utility from Microsoft for file synchronization.

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Using Task Scheduler to Run a Task Before Shutdown

As of writing, the only options available are to "Begin the task": On a schedule At logon At startup On idle On an event At task modification/creation On connect to user session On disconnect from user session On workstation lock On workstation…
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Is SyncToy 2.1 much faster than 2.0

I've stayed with SyncToy v1.4 as I found v2.0 too slow to be of any use. For example when run again immediately after a sync, on a folder pair without any changes, it would start from scratch unnecessarily scanning all the files and sub-folders for…
Rob Kam
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Windows 7 Backup or SyncToy

Before installing Windows 7, I had been using SyncToy to sync all my vital files to a backup external hard drive. Windows 7 has a built in backup utility though and I was wondering if maybe I should use that. Does Windows 7 Backup offer any…
smack0007
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Porting SyncToy 2.0 Folder Pairs to New Profile

I recently had to reload my profile on Windows XP Professional. Basically, my profile folder was renamed to name_old, and my profile was reloaded to the same location at C:\Documents and Settings\name. Now, all my SyncToy folder pairs are gone! …
Jim Fell
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How do I change the order that SyncToy runs folder pairs?

I've setup some folder pairs to run with SyncToy 2.1. Now I want to "Run All" but I want to run them in a different order to which I added them. Is there a way to change the order that the sync pairs will run when I execute "Run All"?
Guy
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Run SyncToy silently

How can I schedule SyncToy to run every day, but also to run silently, i.e. with no GUI and without interrupting other applications? Currently I have it set to run every day, but it pops up a command window which comes to the front and steals focus…
Sam Holder
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How to mimic Echo sync mode using rsync commandline?

The MS tool SyncToy, has 3 intuitive sync modes (N.B. sync NOT backup), to sync two folders. One of them is: Echo which looks for changes (file modifications, new files, renames, deletes) in the left folder and makes them in the right folder…
user19496
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Sync network directory in a dropbox-like fasion but without cloud upload

Some may think that this is a repost of a previous quistion, but I have been looking at a lot of post and tried a lot of tools - but none gave me what I want. I really like dropbox and use it a lot privately. Problem is that I kinda wan't the same…
Norfeldt
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Can SyncToy run synchronously for All Folder Pairs?

I'm running two SyncToy folder pairs under the All Folder Pairs option. The first item synchronizes files which are then used by the second folder pair. As such the first folder pair needs to complete before the second starts. I've noticed errors in…
Guy
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Alternative for SyncToy that smart-deletes existing files on target drive

I'm currently running Windows 7 x64 with a secondary data drive encrypted with Truecrypt. For the past 6 months or so I have been backing up the files on this drive manually to two other drives; using the 'overwrite older only' option in Teracopy…
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How do I schedule a task to run when a new file is detected in a folder?

I'd like to use windows task scheduler to execute a synctoy synchronization. Basically C:\Program Files\SyncToy 2.1\SyncToyCmd.exe -R "Contacts Sync" I'd like the task only to run when a new file is detected in a folder, instead of every 5 minutes.…
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SyncToy not deleting folders when Echoing

When running MS SyncToy and echoing one folder to another, I find that the program does not delete folders which are not present in the "original" folder when backing up to a thumb drive. This leads to unwanted proliferation of folders, as the…
Joel in Gö
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Scheduled task won't start with "Run whether user is logged in or not"

I've set up a task to run SyncToyCmd.exe, it will run fine if the task is set to "only run when user is logged on". But if I choose the second option to run even if it is logged off, it says "Running" but actually nothing happens, and it just says…
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Notification if SyncToy fails

I support a number of laptop users. In the past (before there were many laptops), each user's computer was set up so that their My Documents folder was mapped to a shared folder on the server. This worked very well for desktops, but has several…
Joel Coehoorn
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Folder names become UPPERCASE when syncing to FAT32 drive?

I have started experiencing this very strange issue in the last few months. I did not have this issue before and I do not know what is causing it now. I am using SyncToy 2.1 on Windows 10. I am syncing files to a FAT32 formatted USB drive. Folders…
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