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SyncToy - PC Magazine Best Free Software of 2010

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I was pleased this morning to read that SyncToy 2.1 made it to PC Magazine list of "Best Free Software for 2010".  According to the article:

“What Microsoft once called a "powertoy" is now a great folder-to-folder synchronization tool. It's great for backing up data from local to network storage once in a while, either manually or scheduled”.

SyncToy is a tool that is based on the Sync Framework and is managed out of our group.  With over 1.8 million downloads since the release of version 2.0, it continues to be a great example (and test) of the Sync Framework.

If you are interested in giving SyncToy 2.1 a try, it can be downloaded from here.

Liam

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2010
    Congratulations!  It is definitely a useful tool.  It's just a pity it doesn't enable the SeBackupPrivilege if available (usually when the user is a member of the Backup Operators group) - that would really put it up there as a backup program.

  • Anonymous
    November 14, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2011
    Does it work correctly anymore? Can someone from MS provide support here? social.microsoft.com/.../9bcbf365-b688-4f25-bc05-e68be15dba84

  • Anonymous
    January 08, 2012
    Unfortunately, the Echo function doesn't work as intended, as it does not make a mirror of the source folder to the backup location. If there are extra folders on the target location, it will leave them there.. Quite useless if you want to sync your master folder (let's say music or pictures library on the computer) with a mirror/backup on an external drive...

  • Anonymous
    August 29, 2012
    I have the same problem with it as Beachboy