I would like to synchronise files of two users as well as a shared user folder between my iMac and my macbook air on a daily basis. But I do not want to use iCloud. Is that possible and how can I do that?
imac
Have a look at Chronosync.
http://www.econtechnologies.com/chronosync/overview.html
I use it to keep my files on two macs synchronised.
Dropbox
You can use an external drive or flash drive.
You can use a network drive if both Macs are on the network.
You can use a Dropbox, or Box, or any another cloud based file server
There really is no way to sync the files between two Macs without making a backup of one and restoring that backup on the other.
You can use a cloud service to seemlessly share files. The files do not reside on either Mac though.
You can use a shared email account and access it from both Macs using IMAP. That will allow both Macs to see the same emails.
Dear Duane,
Thanks for your answer. I probably was not clear enough in my original question. I was wondering whether there would be a tool to do this automatically on a daily basis. I have a network drive and I have time machine (both imac and macbook run their back-ups on the same time machine and are on the same wifi network provided by the time machine.
About the manual processes you described in your answer: If I do that under my user name, will my wife not have user right issues when accessing the files when she is logged in? (at least I remember having all sorts of user rights trouble when doing this kind of stuff manually in the past.
Thanks, so this settles it then. I don't like cloud, so I guess I'll do the manual sync as you recommended. Thanks!
synchronising files between macs without using iCloud
