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	File Synchronization – Easy and Fast! Normally: $15.00 ZOT Price: $9.00
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File Synchronization is a utility that has the ability to synchronize multiple pairs of folders or files. It has been designed to be easy to use and fast. It was based originally on the File Synchronization tool provided by Apple with the old Mac OS, but has many improvements and features to help get the job done quickly and efficiently. Main Features: Automatically mounts remote volumes in the background when needed. Preview mode lets you “see” what will happen. Preview mode allows for managing files that need to be synchronized. Optional logging of all operations. Multithreaded for smooth operation even when copying hundreds of megabytes. No document to open or manage: all files and folders and their settings are automatically saved and accessible through the main window. Filters lets you ignore some files and/or folders that you don’t want to synchronize. Automatic synchronization: you select the interval and the pairs and File Synchronization will synchronize them repeatedly according to the time interval. Option to move orphaned files to the trash instead of deleting them. Option to keep orphaned files that have been modified since the last synchronization. Option to delete unwanted files from the preview window. Options to automatically start synchronizing when the application is launched and quit after the synchronization completes. Using a free application like CronniX, you can now schedule synchronization sessions anytime and any way you want. Hierarchical list views that let you see the folder hierarchy of any element displayed in the main, preview or error windows. You can open in the Finder any element in these list views by double-clicking them. Option to present an alert dialog when a file is about to be deleted or moved to the trash. Error reporting can offer possible solutions to common problems and displays additional information regarding any error occuring 2 license types to meet your need: a single-user license, good for a user on any computer, and a computer license, good for all users on that computer, Automatically adjusts for the Blue or Graphite appearance. Localized in Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Norwegian and Russian. More languages coming. Very fast! One of the fastest tool available. Some other tools claim that they use CRC-based techniques to determine which file has changed. Even though checking CRC on files can tell if they are or are not exactly the same, there is no way you can determine which file is newer using this technique. You have to rely on the modification date, which File Synchronization does pretty quickly. The most affordable tool to synchronize. Why pay $30, $50 or $100 when you can have File Synchronization for only $9 on macZOT? Based on Cocoa, automatically gets new enhancements introduced with new version of Mac OS X. Possible Uses: You’re usually using a laptop. You also have a desktop computer. Those are generally more powerful and larger screen than a laptop. Then, you have a bunch of personal, or “key” files, like your Entourage environment, your web browser bookmarks, your budget in Quicken, etc. You would like to use the desktop computer, but without those “key” files, it’s almost impossible. Using File Synchronization, this problem is fixed: before opening a session on your desktop computer, you would just synchronize the files/folders that make sense to you. When you’re done with the desktop computer, just repeat the initial synchronization. As an added bonus, you are actually performing a backup. You’re working on a large web site on your computer. When you’re done with some modifications, you would like to copy only the files that have been modified to your server. File Synchronization is the perfect companion. You’re working in a team that has a shared folders. You use File Synchronization to get and put the latest versions of the documents you’re sharing with your team. You run an array of web servers to provide load balancing and fail-over. So, the html files need to be the same on each web server and when one file is updated, it needs to be copied to all the other web servers. Manually this could be a bit of a pain, but with automatic synchronization, this will be a breeze. Requirements: This application requires a Macintosh computer running Mac OS X version 10.2 (Jaguar) or better. Fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Click to Developer’s Site for more info.

No Responses to “File Synchronization – Easy and Fast!”

1. Yngvede Says:
   June 9th, 2008 at 12:35 am

   Sounds like the missing perfect solution for me to keep my MacBook Pro and my iMac synchronised. Too bad this is only a 1 day Zot – testing this sort of stuff usually takes a little longer.

   Any experiences with this app on keeping laptops and desktops in sync?

2. ubrgeek Says:
   June 9th, 2008 at 3:38 am

   Yngvede – concur. DIFF is perhaps my least favorite tool (other than mkfs), so this would be very useful. Anyone have any idea if this will work with Samba-shared drives?

3. OddyOh Says:
   June 9th, 2008 at 4:50 am

   Good app, works for me. I use it to sync my SD card to a backup folder of it’s contents. Works with Leopard. I haven’t used it on Samba drives though, should work.

4. Giltinan Says:
   June 9th, 2008 at 4:58 am

   I have a large collection of files scattered over several hard drives, Macs, etc. I am going to embark on the tedious job of trying to sort out the duplicates from the originals and the modified files.

   My question is:
   does synchonization of files rely solely on analyzing file dates or does it also analyze contents for differences?

   I had considered using Leap to help with this process since I can actually see the docs without having to print out stuff or juggle apps to view them. But even if snyching only uses file dates, that could seriously help find the dupes that can be trashed and then Leap can sort out the modified files quickly.

   @Maczot
   do you have any developers out there who have serious motivational products to help me attack this problem? 8>D

5. Anrake Says:
   June 9th, 2008 at 6:37 am

   How do I sync to an ftp server?

   It doesn’t seem possible, which means this “possible use” is very unlikely. “You’re working on a large web site on your computer. When you’re done with some modifications, you would like to copy only the files that have been modified to your server. File Synchronization is the perfect companion.”

6. Eburgian Says:
   June 9th, 2008 at 8:30 am

   I’ve used it for years and have been very happy with it. Good support from the developer as well.

   I don’t think the program actually compares the contents of files, just the name and date, but I could be wrong.

   I use it to sync my desktop at work with my flashdrive, and then the flashdrive with my laptop at home. That way, I don’t have multiple versions floating around, and I never panic about having a backup of my important data.

   Considering buying an extra copy as a gift…

7. EKM Says:
   June 9th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

   As I was trying out this app, it seems like it has some problems with FAT32 USB keys.

   I wanted to use it to keep a 300MB documents directory synched with a USB key. But I found that it doesn’t actually sync for me, but rather re-writes the entire folder’s contents each time.

   Because it takes an additional minute and a half before copying the folder over again, it’s actually slower than the old dumb method of just dragging it over in the finder.

8. Eburgian Says:
   June 9th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

   Yes, there is a slight issue with FAT32 formatting, so there’s a setting in the “details” that you need to change. Change “acceptable modification time difference” to 1 minute.

   That should account for the difference in the timestamp formats.

9. Peter Witham Says:
   June 9th, 2008 at 8:13 pm

   I’ve been trying this today and really wanting to like it, but everytime I have tried to sync (1 way update) some 150gb of files on a NAS to a Firewire drive it crashes after about 30 minutes of checking files.

   Seems to be fine on smaller size drives/folders though.

   …still trying to get it working to a point I trust it before the time runs out, because I sure need a tool like this.