{"id":385,"date":"2005-11-03T18:37:03","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T18:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/03\/KeepingMultiplePCsInSync.aspx"},"modified":"2005-11-03T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T18:37:03","slug":"keeping-multiple-pcs-in-sync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/03\/keeping-multiple-pcs-in-sync\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping multiple PCs in sync"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I have a work laptop, a work desktop and a personal computer at home.&nbsp; Moving between each of these machines could be frustrating if it weren\u2019t for a couple nifty tools.&nbsp; The two big areas for me are my IE favorites and my OneNote folders.&nbsp; While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/25\/share-your-web-favorites-with-all-your-machines\/\">I have been happily using Favorites Sync for a while now<\/a>&nbsp;I have only recently settled on a solution to keep my documents folders in sync.&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>MS offers folder redirection to their employees that keeps your entire My Documents folder up on a server.&nbsp; When you\u2019re off the corporate network XP automatically makes the folder available in a cached mode.&nbsp; It\u2019s pretty slick.&nbsp; But\u2026 the folder size is limited and, for employees in California, very slow.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Back in April Microsoft purchased <A href=\"http:\/\/www.groove.net\/\">Groove Networks<\/A>.&nbsp; The Groove product is very cool, creating what amounts to a peer to peer Share Point server.&nbsp;&nbsp; Groove will sync folders and files across multiple computers and allows you to control access so you can easily work with multiple people on a projects covering a whole mess of files.&nbsp; Groove is really cool, and since MS bought it, employees can use it for free.&nbsp; But\u2026 it takes a while for a computer running Groove to boot up (not a ton of time, but I\u2019m impatient).&nbsp; Groove also has chat, project and people management functionality.&nbsp; It\u2019s a great product but overkill for simply sharing files.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>That brings me to <A href=\"http:\/\/www.foldershare.com\/\">FolderShare<\/A>.&nbsp; FolderShare is much more light-weight than Groove, focusing only folder sharing.&nbsp; Groove is great for a multi-person office environment and FolderShare is perfect for individuals.&nbsp; FolderShare offers both free and for-pay versions of their service.&nbsp; The free version of the service limits the number of files and sub-folders which can be shared as well as the speed of the file sync.&nbsp; I\u2019ve been able to stick to just using the free service by keeping a sub-folder in my documents folder where I put the items I want to share (typically my current work) and moving them out when I\u2019m done.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>This morning <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120106042452\/http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/press\/2005\/nov05\/11-03FolderSharePR.mspx\">we announced that we purchased FolderShare<\/a>&#8230;&nbsp; I\u2019m hoping I can get the upgraded service now for free.&nbsp; Yep, I\u2019ve said it before and I\u2019ll say it again\u2026 I\u2019m cheap. \ud83d\ude42<BR><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a work laptop, a work desktop and a personal computer at home.&nbsp; Moving between each of these machines could be frustrating if it weren\u2019t for a couple nifty tools.&nbsp; The two big areas for me are my IE favorites and my OneNote folders.&nbsp; While I have been happily using Favorites Sync for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,21],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usefulsoftware","category-useful","tag-useful-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}