ChronoSync - do you like this syncing program?

I love Chronosync, even though my use for it is pretty elementary. Indeed, the way I use it is an insult to very capable program. Basically, I clone my system to another drive using Disk Utility, then regularly use Chronosync to keep my personal data up-to-date on the clone, running it every couple of weeks (I've gotten to be a bit of a sluggard because I also use Time Machine). After you've done a sync on a folder, and saved its Chronosync file, the next time you just double-click the saved sync and a new sync takes places in nothing flat. It is ever so much faster than the Finder at copying files. Indeed, I just remembered I had added some new music files to iTunes so ran Chronosync on the iTunes folder, which contains 15GBs of music in 4018 files. It found 10MBs not backed-up, backed them up. Total time to do that: about 4 seconds.

You can configure it to suit yourself, for instance I have it set to NOT synchronize deletions, so my backup clone has files I have tossed from my startup drive, but might want for something at some future time.

One other nice thing: once you buy it, for a very reasonable price, you get FREE updates. Forever. Indeed the latest version is different enough that it didn't recognize my old prefs and serial number, let alone my email address (the original registration was with a totally different email account), but a quick email to Chronosync customer support fixed that.
Francine


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