{"id":23,"date":"2005-08-16T16:34:56","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2005-08-16T16:34:56","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T15:34:56","slug":"microsoft-synctoy-is-it-any-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/16\/microsoft-synctoy-is-it-any-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft SyncToy – is it any good?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The answer would seem to be Yes…. and No….<\/p>\n

I installed it<\/a> a couple of days ago – but couldn’t quite be bothered to do anything with it…. it all looked a bit clunky and not very nice to use (plus it kept objecting – spuriously I might add – to me selecting a folder on a UNC path)<\/p>\n

Well, last night I sat down to have a proper play with it, and it’s actually quite good – for certain specific tasks…. taking a backup of your music collection for example – it doesn’t change all<\/em> that often – but the sync is a manual job… so you need to remember to run it after you rip some more CD’s.<\/p>\n

Not being able to schedule syncs is a bit of a bummer – but I have SyncBackSE<\/tag> for my regular backups, and this will do nicely for keeping my music collection and important documents available when I travel.<\/p>\n

So for a 1.0 BETA<\/tag><\/em> release of an unsupported and free<\/strong> PowerToy<\/tag> I’ll give it 7.5 \/ 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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