Folder sychronisation

[Big Chris]

I have a laptop and a media PC, both running Windows 7 Ultimate. I have folders on both machines for Music, Films, Pictures etc.

I download music, video, pics etc to my laptop first, then copy it to the same named folder on the PC if/when required over my home network as the folders are all shared and open to read/edit.

I'm frequently buying music though and adding albums to artist folders and it's a pain to keep pushing it all manually to the media PC. Is there a way I can sync the folders, so anything I add the laptop Music folder will also magically appear in the PC music folder? I've had a Google around and confused myself more if anything...

 

[Big Chris]

Thanks Lurkio, I have next to no idea what any of that means though I'm afraid!

Is there not something built into Windows that makes it simpler? I know you could sync folders in XP and probably before, I've never played with it and don't want to go in blind.

 

[Big Chris]

I don't mind manually asking it to sync, I can just do so every week or something when I've made updates to the folder on my laptop.

I'll give Synctoy a go on a test folder and see how I get on.

Cheers fellas