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Once upon a time, I was using a U3 USB disk for backing up some of my important business files, amongst other things. It was running with CruzerSync and whenever I’d plug the disk in and enter my password for the drive, CruzerSync would open. If I entered my password there, synchronization would start. CruzerSync was a good program and I would have continued to use it, but, alas, the time came for me to upgrade and then buy a new computer with Microsoft Vista. My version of U3 for my Sandisk Cruzer does not like Vista. So bye-bye it went.

That, along with the need for backing up files in our TV control room, meant I needed to find new synchronization software. I ran a Google search and downloaded the first thing I found: Allway Sync.

I really liked this software and ended up installing the mobile version for use on two jump drives. One to be used only in the TV room to occasionally backup Avid project files and the other mine for business files. I also installed the regular version on my desktop and made about four partnerships for it to backup on a schedule, but only when the files changed. However, I apparently recently exceeded one of the limits of the free version and was told:

Measurements indicate usage in excess of typical personal requirements. Please consider obtaining the Pro version of Allway Sync.

Of course, that’s bull… I mean, I just take a lot of photos. That wasn’t the only problem I had with it, apparently even though Vista shows your photos, music, and video folders separate from documents, they still have a shortcut somewhere under there. But Allway apparently had a problem and it didn’t like this, so the backup I had for the documents folder would always hang waiting for me to ignore the three errors. Other than that, it was a good program and I currently still have it on the TV room USB drive.

But I needed something else for home. So I searched again and I found SyncToy.
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