How to sync files between more than comupter (not cloud storage)

DampDog

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Ok I've had my trusty old desktop for 10 years of more. Any files I deemed important I stick in "My Documents" That gets backed up every couple of days to a external hard drive.

Now Santa's bought me a laptop for xmas and I'd like to keep my desktop, laptop and external drive all sync'd so if one fails, the files are still duplicated on at one of the other two devices. Is there an easy way to do this in windows 10?
 
Just had a quick look and while there are no automated schedules as such. It does allow you to go old-school and run it from task scheduler so will probably be plenty good enough for my needs.
Cheers, that one was sorted quickly.:)
 
Spoke too soon...
Downloaded SyncToy 2.1 However it requested a .Net framework update. 2.XXX. Tried to install the update and it's telling me it's already intalled @ 4.8XXX

Same looked like that would have done the trick.
 
DampDog said:
Spoke too soon...
Downloaded SyncToy 2.1 However it requested a .Net framework update. 2.XXX. Tried to install the update and it's telling me it's already intalled @ 4.8XXX

Same looked like that would have done the trick.
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On Windows 10 you install it from Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows features on or off -> .NET Framework 3.5

That includes backwards compatibility with .NET 2.
 
bledd said:
Any reason not cloud storage?

OneDrive does exactly what you want.
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Part phobia, part data limits. Well mostly data limits.

I'm basically tight (and skint) I'm still getting by using office 2010, which has a monthly cost of zero! However it does everything I need and I begrudge paying for stuff "for ever and a day" which is the way 365 has gone. Also, I've gathered about 20Gig worth of old files (to be fair some of which I could bin off or archive) but the free version of OneDrive you only get 5Gig. (I think Google Drive is the same) Bottom line is I'm just a bit of a dinosaur and I feel more comfortable having my private data where I know it is. Not on some server sitting in Iceland or where ever Microsoft builds it's server farms this year.
 
i use a robocopy batch file in the startup folder to copy files to various PCs. i can also just double click it when i want to update the files.

I'm sure there are more sophisticated ways of doing it, but it works for me
 
champ222 said:
i use a robocopy batch file in the startup folder to copy files to various PCs. i can also just double click it when i want to update the files.

I'm sure there are more sophisticated ways of doing it, but it works for me
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I've got SyncToy running a scheduled task once a day now and that is doing the job. I didn't know robocopy was built in though, that's handy, I may well have a play with that.

Cheers.
 
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