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Re: coming home
for the real answers
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Author: Community Mailer
Posted: Fri, 8 May 2009 06:58:26 -0700
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Subject: Re: coming home for the real answers
Author: jayp (New User)
Date: 05-08-2009 02:58 PM
There are a couple of good and free ways of doing this. I used to use SyncToy, which is a lot better than the word "toy" might imply. I would sync my endnote directory (with it's libraries and pdfs) from my desktop to laptop. You could also easily sync your computers with a flash drive. The whole point is that it takes the newer files and overwrites the older ones. In 3 or 4 years, it's never messed up once. I also keep good backups though. Recently, I got tired of having to run sync toy repeatedly and having to "think" about when syncing was necessary. I've begun using Windows Live Sync to sync most of my files (including EndNote libraries and pdfs) over the internet. This is a really great solution, because when I come home, my desktop is already synced. And if I work on the desktop, when I go back to work with the laptop, it gets all the changes too. As a final suggestion, I created a folder named Synced and put most of the files I need to sync inside of it. I found that having one folder is clearer and easier to setup when using Windows Live Sync. I now use SyncToy just for syncing really large files -- not practical to do over the internet. Other alternatives include Windows Live Mesh (a beta product which syncs just like Live Sync, but has some extra features as well like having documents accessible on the web) or DropBox (a paid service that does pretty much the same thing as Live Sync).
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| Re: coming home
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Author: Community Mailer
Posted: Fri, 8 May 2009 11:05:20 -0700
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Subject: Re: coming home for the real answers
Author: myoshigi (Maven)
Date: 05-08-2009 07:05 PM
I like the idea of live sync. I wish I can switch to that. But, the problem of the automatic sync is, if my endnote library is corrupted, all my sync'd fies are all corrupted automatically. To avoid this problem, I need a scheduled backup, say every other day, to keep healthy files. I don't know why it happens so often, but I encounter library file corruption almost every 4-5 months. That's quite often, as compared to the MTBF hours of hard drive. I believe it is related to something in the .data folder. Anyway, I'm still using my favorite manual sync tool, which is called CopyTo as I mentioned somewhere. And I have a Acronis TrueImage to take care scheduled mirroring. Using PCs (I mean, Personal Computers in general), it seems my life never gets simpler. It only gets more complicated.
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