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File synchonization between PCs

Quite often, I switch back and forth between working on my desktop and on my laptop.  I might go out to a coffee shop, over to my fiancee's, to my parents, or to campus, and want to bring my work with me.  I'll usually be in the middle of something and not in a place where I want to check it in to source control, but I want to have my latest files on my laptop.

Anybody have any good recommendations for keep files in sync between two PCs?  Mainly want something that is quick to run, can do some sort of profiles (copy files for Project X or copy files for Project Y) and that only transfers new files, rather than everything.  I've found a number of utilities out there, but some of them look old/ugly and not incredibly user friendly.

Comments

Paolo Marcucci said:

There are, of course, Offline Folders or, if you need to synch across firewalls, www.foldershare.com.
# September 14, 2004 7:32 PM

Rich C said:

For the last couple of years, I've kept most of my projects on my server and synched them with Offline Folders to both my laptop and desktop. No reason one could not just go from the desktop to the laptop, though.
# September 15, 2004 2:01 AM