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Should be an easy way to keep data in sync beween folders.

Submitted by Rob Kam on August 25, 2009 to Annoyance, Legacy, Usability

There is no way to keep files between folders in sync with each other, without using some application like SyncToy, (which offers five different ways to do this). This should be intrinsic to the file system.

For example: First work on some files and folders on PC 1, then update the copies of these on a USB drive. Then use the USB drive to transfer the data to PC 2. After working with the files and folders on PC 2, the folders and files on the USB drive and then PC 1 are also updated in turn.

Another example: Using local copies of files to work with rather than across a slow VPN, but having the same files on a mapped drive easily kept up to date.

Another example: Keeping a backup of some large multimedia project on an external hard drive.

An improved file system with this built in, so that it becomes trivial to keep various copies of data in sync.

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