Stay informed about special deals, the latest products, events, and more from Microsoft Store. Available to United States residents. By clicking sign up, I agree that I would like information, tips, and offers about Microsoft Store and other Microsoft products and services. Privacy Statement. See System Requirements. Available on HoloLens. Description Sync is a file transfer app with full sync, backup and restore for local, external or cloud storage.
Show More. People also like. Office Free. QR Scanner Plus Free. FM Radio Free. Features File sync between two folders or locations File backup to cloud storage, local or external drive File restore from cloud storage, local or external drive File manager for cloud storage and local drives. Additional information Published by Miciniti Ventures. Published by Miciniti Ventures. Then click Sharing options to continue.
Step 2: In the popup window, check the option Turn on network discovery , the option Turn on file and printer sharing , and the option Turn off password protected sharing. Then click Save changes to continue. Step 3: Right-click the folder you want to sync and choose Properties to continue. In the popup window, please go to the Sharing tab and click Share… to continue. Step 4: Next, please input guest in the box and click Add to continue. Step 6: Returning to the Properties window, click Advanced Sharing… to continue.
Step 7: In the popup window, check the option Share this folder and click OK to continue. At last, close this window. Step 8: Please press Windows key and R key together to open Run dialog and input cmd to continue.
Step 9: Then input the ipconfig command in the command line window and press Enter to continue. And please remember the IPv4 address which will be used to enter the shared folder. Now, you have created a shared folder and it is time to performing file synchronization and managing offline files. Step 3: Double-click the shared folder and you can see all items are listed here.
Check files you want to manage when the computer is offline and choose Always available offline from the context menu to continue. Step 4: Then you can open the folder sync software — Sync Center to view your offline files by clicking View your offline files.
Step 5: Then you can see that all your files are listed here and you can manage them even when they are offline or not connected with the computer. So when you have finished all the steps, you have successfully synchronized files so as to keep data safe. And if you have made some changes of the files in the shared folder, the synchronized files will update the changes too. All in all, compared with the best file sync software — MiniTool ShadowMaker, the Windows snap-in tool is more complicated and difficult.
So if you want to sync files and folder, in my opinion, MiniTool ShadowMaker is a better choice. Besides syncing files, you can also choose to back up files to keep data safe. After reading this post, I have learned the way to sync files and folders so as to keep my data safe. In conclusion, we have introduced two pieces of file sync software in this post. In addition, if you have any problem with MiniTool ShadowMaker, please feel free to contact us via the email [email protected].
Download Shadowmaker. Tip: MiniTool ShadowMaker belongs to one-way file synchronization. Tip: You can also manage the remote computer as long as they are on the same LAN. Tip: It is suggested that you should choose an external hard drive as the destination. Note: If the file synchronization task is not listed here, you can click the Add Backup button to add it to this page.
Read More. You cannot go wrong with both of them unless you require a specific feature that one of the programs does not offer. Update : SyncBackFree is another excellent program that ships with a couple of unique features. It is probable the feature-richest program of all programs mentioned in this article. If you don't require two-way syncing, then Bvckup may be another interesting choice.
The program supports delta-copying which should speed up consecutive sync jobs significantly. Now You : Which program is your favorite when it comes to file synchronization on Windows? Do any of them support continuous real time operation as well as automatic at discrete scheduled times? You can configure Synchredible to check every x minutes for files that need to be synchronized. I liked Synchredible until it pesters you every 10 minutes or less to buy a copy.
It is so annoying that even though it works really well, its prompting to buy a copy interferes with getting work done. I have uninstalled it. I just synced two 2T external drives containing hundreds of folders and tens of thousands of files without a hitch and without a single prompt to buy anything.
This same operation choked a couple lesser programs, locking me out of my drives until a reboot, including Aoemi backerupper. Highly recommended. The help instructions explain how to do this pretty clearly. You can then put the customized RealTimeSync shortcut in your Startup folder.
Once it is running, RealTimeSync monitors the folders referenced in the batch file for changes and, when a change is detected, it runs FreeFileSync in background. When RealTimeSync first starts, it has to enumerate files on the remote computer s. On a hardwired Ethernet network, changes to a file on one computer usually show up on the other within a couple of minutes.
If the same file changes on both sides since the last sync — e. Resolving conflicts is easy. You run the batch file in FreeFileSync manually and click the Compare button. All the as-yet-unsynced files are listed, and the conflicted ones are flagged with a lighting-bolt icon.
You indicate which direction to sync the conflicted files in by changing the lighting bolt to a right or left arrow and then you click Synchronize. Finally, you can set up your FreeFileSync batch job to back up any file deleted or changed by a sync operation, with or without versioning. The bundled adware business is distasteful — they seem to be alternating between OpenCandy and whatever Martin mentioned in the article — but if you get tricked into installing it they got me once, on an update , Malwarebytes Anti-Malware free can probably take it out.
Why is it called free. All the programs I want to download tell me that I have to pay. Maybe it is only free when you write an review :. FreeFileSync actually is free donation-ware.
If you donate, you get clean installers. The file synced halfway through the download, and when it tried to sync again after completion, it threw a conflict and I got a popup. It took me a minute to resolve, by running FreeFileSync manually and telling it to overwrite the half-completed file with the completed file. I can live with that a couple of times a year.
The smaller jobs run and complete much faster than one massive job does and they can run concurrently. The faster and shorter the run, the smaller the blind spot, and the fewer outstanding unsynced files after each run. Anyway, long story short, FreeFileSync and RealTimeSync can take some time to master and fine-tune, but once you do, it can result in blissfully thought-free, effort-free, error-free automation.
An apparent drive error took out one of my FreeFileSync Backups folders a few days ago. Luckily, I had backed everything up to an external drive the day before. FreeFileSync may be a great program but my antivirus will not let me install it. The minute it downloads, Avira goes nuts. The bundleware usually triggers at least a PUP potentially unwanted program alert in most anti-virus programs.
Whitelist the installer in your antivirus and opt out of bundleware offers during installation. And if your not already running, Unchecky, install it. Not sure if it relevant to this discussion but it has certainly served me well and might be worth a look. I set up all my individual profiles, then create a group profile and place all the single profiles into that. When I want to back up everything, I just run the group profile with a single click.
It was easy to learn and easy to use. I seem to recall that it was pretty fast, too. From the suggested list, FreeFile Sync seems to best suit my needs. It also has more functions than Create Synchronicity. I can get rid of the adware which seems to be the price to pay for the gap. Which ones, and what did you think of them?
Just a small correction: Verification is available in FreeFileSync, too, but it needs to be activated manually by editing a configuration file GlobalSettings.
Never needed that feature so I am not sure if it can do that or not. Also the ability to so easily add filters from the results. It fulfills all other requirements specified in this article. I strongly suggest the unsupported beta of Bvckup which is freeware. It does delta copying, meaning only sending over changes. Once you do the initial backup, no other backup program can compete, especially with large file sizes or encrypted volumes.
Bvckup — unsupported beta, which is freeware. Once you do the initial backup, no other backup program can begin to compete, especially with large file sizes or encrypted volumes.
I also use DSynchronize for some time, I am quite happy with it. This is a link for downloading the latest portable version of SyncBack free. Been using this link for quite a few years to update the program. Thanks I will check it out. Though I do use it to make daily — weekly and monthly backups in zip at 2nd locations lan or ftp.
The release version is not free but the last beta from before first release is available for free I think. But well worth the money. A drawback is that it only does what its name say: backup i. For a very long time I have been using robocopy with yarcgui.
Some time ago I tested syncback and was so convinced by the software that I bought the proversion. I cannot speak for the free version but pro offers great features that are very well worth the money. Once licence allows five installations which is generous. Can the Bckup real time synch do that? Few months ago I tried FreeFileSync and some others but they all wanted to re-scan the folders to sync them, which is not feasible for several TB of files. I believe robocopy is capable of this.
It would have to be started with user login and run in the background. It can be used to watch folders and copy changes. I am pretty sure that it will not just rename the target file but delete and copy the new version. Not many bakcup programs are capable of dealing with real renaming. It might work for static sites on the Internet though, or if you run a regular backup of your database or complete server and sync that.
For me this is a must, I try not to use programs which are not cross platform. Try it please and include it because I think JFileSync is a really nice free and open source utility that is stable and works reliably for many years and it deserves to be more well known. Before I reached the bottom of the article I new what programs were worth trying one day and they were the ones you recommend.
Is that you? I needed an ftp solution. It was one of the few that could sync via ftp. Very powerful and reliable. No love for Microsoft Briefcase? Some users confused it with normal folders and messed their files.
I use FreeFileSync on a regular basis. Mostly due to its speed. Used pureSync until it started skipping files and corrupting data. Another one I use and really really like is DirSyncPro: java based, portable and with an amazing array of options, batch setups, etc. Give it a try. I have looked at many synchronization software packages, including Syncback. The main concern I have is data integrity. How do I make sure my data is copied fault-free?
This is something none of these software packages listed can guarantee — unless they redownload the entire file after copying, doubling processing time.
Syncovery offers such an option. Will give it a spin tonight! Can you confirm that any of these copy files that are in use? Needless to say, I removed the virtual machines from my real-time sync job and created a manual job for them instead.
It looks like there are a number of paid commercial products e. For now, I can live with having to back my virtual machines up manually when convenient. They will only be picked up the next time a change occurs while FreeFilesync is not running or the next time RealTimeSync is started after being turned off.
However, after some time I noticed that some of images started getting corrupt blank black image, when I open them. Also, some of my excel files are also corrupted even if excel auto-recover contents, it contains all symbols and irrelevant content. Has anyone came across such issue? I think this problems pertains to files in deep directories. Have you checked all of above softwares for data corruption issues and deep directory files sync success?
I now use plain backup software. However, I have also used FreeFileSync to sync data between two different computers e.
I would really appreciate some helpful pointers because I find FreeFileSync brilliant if I coud use it to achieve what you have done with it. The answers to your questions turn out to be pretty involved. You can also check organyze file synchronization software. It can be downloaded for free from this link.
High on my list to donate or subscribe at first opportunity to do so. Thanks to others who recommended SyncBackFree. Am not sure how its cometitors stack up, but that one comment was a lead I needed to look no further.
GBU all, Chris. Can you suggest and publish an article on tools that backup to cloud? Becaue cloud is popular now. Synchredible Pro version subscription. I run several vm on a commercial server raid configuration. In addition we have a redundant workstation syncing client data files minute by minute to an offsite storage using Synchredible.
The workstation was running winxp pro sp3 and everything worked perfectly from Synchredible 4. It was on a timer so it shut down at 2am and restarted at 7am. One day it remained running and we found that Synchredible faulted at 1. The benefits were significantly greater than the issue so we continued using Synchredible.
Then we upgraded the workstation to win10 pro and immediately had fatal errors in Synchredible. Since the advent of affordable uncapped broadband, more customers are opting to remain permanently logged in to the server and working on their files, saving their work as they go, but leaving them permanently open. As a consequence, those relevant clients files are are never being updated to external storage anymore.
We have investigated all possibilities we can think of relating to Win10 and have had discussion with the developer of Synchredible who is at a loss to know what to do. We offered our support to find a solution but the developer said he cannot afford not enough money to find a solution and recommends we look for a replacement program.
In summary I have to say that Synchredible was an excellent program and I am disappointed that we can no longer use it for the above reasons. Others may never experience these issues. Anyways, that is how I got to this discussion forum in the search for an alternative program. Thank you all for such an open and robust discussion forum. Just wanted to let you know that we are about to release a new version of ExclusiveFiles add-on which should fix the rare Windows 10 issue recording to the developer.
Please just contact us at [email protected] if you want to get informed as soon as the update is available, thank you! The default Windows Server Backup feature provides a very basic backup and recovery solution for computers running the Windows Server , , and Cloud based repositories have become very popular in recent years due to their constant availability but unfortunately lack some automation and data source flexibility. From one interface you can pull the data from all the sources in your company and push it to multiple destinations including machines on the same network, remote servers, NAS devices, and even cloud based data storage accounts.
RSYNC for windows is a great tool do not get me wrong. This is an important feature for me. I only found a hint at PureSync suggested by B. Moore that the tool supports long path names. Hi everybody! I have a question concerning a sync app with some particular features that I could not find yet. Maybe you can help me find it. Is there any file sync software that allows to pair folders between 2 remote PCs, that works by tracking the changes made to files during a working session in PC 1 at work , temporarily upload new files into a cloud storage space by for example pressing a button just before you leave the office and turn off the pc, and once you start a session in PC 2 later at home be able to accept file changes and start sync.
I find this idea useful to keep my everyday working folders up to date between home and work, without the need to have them both powered on simultaneously along the whole day, and at the same time being safely in the way that it allowes checking upcoming changes before syncronization. In this connection, I wonder whether using a USB3 thumb drive might not work at least as well as using the cloud.
Well … unless you unintentionally assign the exact same volume label to a different drive or thumb drive. Whenever you save a new or modified file, or delete a file, or rename a file in a targeted folder, your RealTimeSync task would detect the change and automatically run FreeFilesync. The default delay is 10 seconds.
You can edit this. My guess is that there are simpler solutions than FreeFileSync out there. Just copying your most recently edited files, or the entire folder containing them, to and from something like Dropbox or Google Drive might be easiest of all, especially if you use something like TeraCopy to do the copying.
Hopefully there will be some…. Hi Antonio, I am seconding what a different Martin says. If the computers clocks are in sync TeraCopy or similar can do the job. I am using FastCopy a competitor to TeraCopy in fast copying for those tasks. You can chose to preview the actions and estimate the time the actions will take. You can define postprocessing commands standby, hibernate, shutdown, run command.
I think it could be what you are looking for. FastCopy looks like a really good find — it looks like an impressive and impressively well documented utility. I downloaded the bit installer no malware or PUPs detected and am definitely going to give it a try. Thanks for bringing it to our attention! Thanks for a great article Martin!
We want something that produces a synced folder that can be read from any attached machine, in a location of our own choosing. A review of FreeFileSync on another site I think it was on the Sourceforge download page mentioned that FFS changes the time and date stamp on files and folders to the time of sync. If so, that would be a deal-breaker for us. Has anyone experienced this? Do not count on these results to apply to other comparison and syncing methods or to other OSes?
Instead, I find an open messagebox waiting for me. Is it necessary to leave Quickbooks open during syncs? Do you run your syncs on a schedule? In my experience, copying locked files generates synchronization conflicts that need to be manually resolved in a subsequent manual sync, but maybe it was just the type of files I was using. Also, you may be able to write a command-line batch file that starts Quickbooks and then starts the FreeFileSync Quickbooks data batch job.
Finally, you can use a RealTimeSync job to monitor changes to your Quickbooks Data folder and automatically run your FreeFileSync Quickbooks Data batch job whenever a change is detected. So long as a change is made to at least one of the files in your Quickbooks Data folder when Quickbooks exits, your FreeFileSync batch job would run automatically when Quickbooks exits.
Tried everything else and found all wanting. I had to uninstall all versions of Python 3. I got past the install problem by re-installing Python and then parsely.
Now when I start a sync the window interface emits the Python command that starts it and then just hangs. The manual, more a dissertation than a user manual, affords me no help. It depends… It was an announcements for a free software project, which somewhat matches the page topic ;.
Is the window frozen?
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