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2.0 A Long time coming...

I wonder if and when the final release will ever arrive... 122.148.173.37 (talk) 18:27, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

May be it will require Sync Framework to RTW first. --soum ^talk 06:04, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See link for Beta download if you want to try it out. Dbfirs 07:03, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1.4 no longer available

The link for 1.4 appears to work, but if you click download it just shows a text file sayign 1.4 is no longer available and provides a link to download 2.0 --tundu ^talk 01:07, 22 Apr 2009 (UTC)

Fixed problems

Here are some problems with the article that I've fixed:

It discussed all versions of the product throughout the article. It should only discuss the current version (presently 2.1) unless there's explicitly a reason to talk about another version. I created a "history" section for this purpose.
A lot of text was spent on the "echo not deleting" bug. Apart from how unencylopedic this was (e.g. "you should monitor your right folder"), it was also inaccurate: this was a bug in version 2.0 only, fixed in 2.1, rather than in both as the article says. Since small bugs in previous versions aren't noteworthy, I've removed this entirely.
There was some wordy stuff about how the program works e.g. "the user manual is highly ambiguous in places". I'm not sure if this was referring to a previous version, but it didn't seem to have any valid concerns. The only concrete claim was that there are issues if folders are entered without trailing backslahes, but this must refer to an old version since all folders appear that way in 2.1.

Quietbritishjim (talk) 19:05, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Echo delete bug again

Mention of the bug where Echo does not delete was added back to the main body of the article. As I said above, the developers claimed fix this in 2.1, and where I've seen people reporting the problem they were all indeed using 2.0 (also, and less importantly, the bug seems to be fixed when I try it). Unless someone can provide a citation showing otherwise, I am prepared to believe that this is fixed in 2.1. I don't think a bug of this scale in an old version is worth mentioning, but if it really must be then it should be mentioned only in the history section, since the rest of the article is only about the current version. So to placate those that want this in the article I made a brief mention of the bug in that section, and removed it again from the main part of the article. Quietbritishjim (talk) 10:18, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I just gave version 2.1 a try, for mirroring folder A to folder B. When a file has been deleted from folder A, it is not planned for deletion from folder B. I tried the 3 operation modes (synchronize, echo, contribute), no one offered to delete the file from folder B. So either there is a bug, either SyncToy doesn't have "mirror" operation mode. Od1n (talk) 23:01, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Alternatives....

I really like SyncToy, but the fact you cannot highlight multiple files and then "check" or "uncheck" them is really starting to bug me! Instead you have to select/deselect them one at a time!

Can anybody recommend a free alternative that is in the same vein as Synctoy (ie: simple, user-friendly), but rectifies this annoying problem? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mayhemm (talk • contribs) 06:30, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Syncfolder

> Microsoft now provides a similar facility via Syncfolder

This application is authored by Jos Huybrighs and not by Microsoft. In my opinion this line should be removed. --2001:A61:2482:F101:BC78:F0DC:1218:3831 (talk) 18:16, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Microsoft provided a third party tool, Syncfolder ^[1], the authorship is irrelevant. It is hosted by Microsoft and therefore presumably endorsed by them. In MY opinion this removal is therefore incorrect. I will do nothing at this stage but I urge the author of this removal to think again. Apologies if this Talk entry is inorrectly formatted. I am but an egg in these matters :-) Jid~enwiki (talk | contribs) 03:22, 25 September 2021

References

^ "SyncFolder". Retrieved 2021-09-12.

[1] "SyncFolder". Retrieved 2021-09-12.

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