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Fed up with SyncToy

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I’ve been trying to use Microsoft’s SyncToy for my directory synchronization tasks, and I’m just about fed up with it.  For reasons I can’t fathom, it routinely “forgets” what to synchronize.  I frequently synchronize to and from a USB stick, and I find that SyncToy usually wants to copy far more files than have actually been changed.  Like I’ll make a couple of changes to some files on the stick, and then for some reason SyncToy thinks it needs to re-copy all kinds of files from both the stick and the computer.  So I end up having to copy files manually from one side to another.  It’s a bit aggravating.

I guess I’m going back to TreeComp, a freeware program I first used in about 2003.  It looks godawful but still works better and faster than anything I’ve seen.  We’ll see how it goes on Vista.

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