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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/LuckyRide on 2024-05-30 17:13:02.

As always, I don't work for them, but I really like the product.

"Synchronize Files and Folders" => https://freefilesync.org

It's really just a copy program - pretty typical and standard. Except it does SUCH a good job.

You can set up sessions that copies when you run them - so update, mirror, things like that, to arbitrarily complex sets of disks and files. I use it extensively for backups to always know my files are backed up. It needs to be kicked off manually, but it just works so well and I like monitoring the steps.

Most especially, I move files around between diff folders (think picture sorting, etc) and it will figure that out and "move" the files versus "always re-copy". So it really speeds everything up.

So really what I use it for is "make sure every file is backed up properly" - and it does it really well - it "never gives up until success" no matter what happens. You can just re-run and make sure it's "all up to date".

It supports Windows, Mac, and I think linux - so same on all platforms. It's donation-ware - and I think there is some more features if you donate - but I don't remember since I donated since the very beginning.

No other tool really does it as well - no Windows copy or anything like that gives me any confidence like this does.

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