Flawless Syncing Software

toosepin · 1 Feb 2008 at 21:13

Hi guys,

I'm a Computer Engineering student and I'm looking for an application to sync my Uni pen drive with my MBP.

I deal with multiple files (mostly Java) and between working on the Macs in the labs and my Macbook Pro at home I'm fed up with checking which updated files I need to copy across to my MBP or my pen drive.

Is there any application I can use to automatically sync the latest files from my MBP and back to my pen drive without making mistakes such as overwriting a file with the wrong version.

Anybody got any recommendations?

Thanks

theheyes · 1 Feb 2008 at 22:51

Dont know of any software solution.

I had a similar problem and it taught me pretty quickly how to structure a good version history. I do sympathise however I've lost a lot of code that way.

Whiskas · 2 Feb 2008 at 12:07

man rsync?

J1234 · 2 Feb 2008 at 12:09

I'm sure you could sort something out with Automator to do that.

artaxerxes · 2 Feb 2008 at 13:25

Carbon Copy Cloner will do it - just choose the drives and the subfolders you want to update. It's also free and friendly with all recent Mac OSes

toosepin · 2 Feb 2008 at 19:27

Thanks for the replies guys.

I've had a play with automator but I can't find the bridge between sorting the files by last modified and copying all selected files to another location.

I'll have a crack at CCC now.

Cheers

EDIT: Actually rsync is looking quite nifty.

artaxerxes · 2 Feb 2008 at 19:51

Carbon Copy Cloner is just a fancy front end for rsync.

ilikedthecore · 2 Feb 2008 at 20:35

If you don't mind the command line (or can get the GUI working) Unison does this, I use it to sync my Uni work with a pen drive.