file syncing

Nobody quite warns you how your relationship with your computer changes when you swap Apple’s cosseted gardens for the wild, windy plains of Windows. It’s a migration that feels a bit like leaving a five-star resort where slippers are always fluffy and staff anticipate every need, only to...

For years, the very notion of running Linux tools on Windows would evoke images of clunky virtual machines wheezing under the load of Type-2 hypervisors, all so an intrepid user could SSH into a server or play with Bash scripts over their morning coffee. This arrangement, while serviceable, felt...

Google’s native Google Drive desktop app for ARM-based Windows PCs is here, and it’s set to change the way Snapdragon-powered devices sync and store files. No more emulation bottlenecks—the new ARM64-compiled app brings optimized performance and deeper integration with Windows 11, promising a...

If you’ve been enjoying the seamless integration of your Android phone and Windows 11 via the Phone Link app, you might be scratching your head if things aren’t syncing quite as expected. A recent issue highlighted by a Pocketables article reveals a curious delay when trying to access newly...

I Installed my win11 and enabled onedrive when windows was greeting me and now my desktop, documents and pictures is part of onedrive! how did this happen? I want my onedrive folder independent of all other folders how do I fix this?

Is there something unique about Windows 8.1 as to why there would be two user folders on my hard drive. I discovered this by accident this morning. I found the active folder that was updating my dropbox and onedrive folders, and I had to copy a file over from one user to the other that was not...

I've tried posting this question to the MS pro forums and a couple of other places with no luck, and am getting truly desperate. At this point, I'd be happy just to know if it's something wrong with the configuration, or if this is a fundamental Win7 problem. I recently started managing a...

I've tried u1 and I love it. Especially the way how folder backup works. It is backuping all the changes to u1. The choosen folders look exactly the same as on the cloud. If I delete a file in the source the file is deleted in the target.. I think its called a mirror backup. Anyway... I choose...

Keeping a fixed drive letter for a mobile phone For over a year, I have been connecting my Android phone to my laptop with USB so that I can sync certain files. The software I use needs to be told where to sync to, and until recently this was always drive I when the phone was connected...

If you live on the web, things might have just gotten more interesting. Some more screenshots of Windows 8 just leaked online, and it looks like Microsoft is seriously thinking about baking file syncing and web sharing straight in the new operating system. We got a tantalizing look at Windows 8...

I was using an XP laptop to manage two external hard drives (a 500GB primary backup and a 1TB secondary backup) using SyncToy 2.1 (action: Echo). I have now got a new laptop running Windows 7 64-bit and will be giving away the old one soon. How do I migrate the management of the two external...

As an experienced XP Pro user, I am somewhat surprised at what appears to be limitations associated with Win 7 offline file synchronisation process In XP pro files would sync on log on, log off and as frequently in between as you establised. However in Win 7 it appears to only sync on log on...

I have just installed W7 RC and have encountered the following problem with (or feature of) Windows Live Mail. Sorry for the long post that I need to explain this. My production setup is XP using Outlook Express as an IMAP client. With OE, I can drag email .EML files to Explorer folders...