Wow. Simple, quick. I needed something that worked with 10.7. My old sync software wanted me to buy a new copy for $40, so I started looking around. rsync is a unix standard, but I didn't want to learn the command line. The fact that this is simple GUI for rsync is probably the reason it has stayed compatible for so long.
One of the reasons I like this package is that I can say specifically which files I want synced - most other software only had control at the folder level. I specific use was for a few particular files.
arRsync is exactly what you need to do a quick folder merge! Which is all I needed for a project. I have BBEdit for file merges, but for just a quick merge, i like this (for terminal jockey's, well, why are you reading this in a non-text-based browser anyway?j/k).
I haven't tried 'synctwofolders, but this just works. A little explanation of which parent folder to select would have been useful, but it only took one error to figure this out. for free, hard to beat.
This is a great little timesaver.. when iDisk 'gave up' after 2 days of uploading my iTunes Music, I used arRsync to copy the iTunes folder to a 16GB Flash Voyager. It (2.5GB) took almost no time!
Needless to say I use it to sync a number of other items. There should be a donate button somewhere for this 'must have'..
Simple and free. That it uses the rsync utility within OS X and doesn't re-invent the wheel is smart. It doesn't provide access to all of rsync's functions, but as a pre-1.0 release, arRsync provides the basics to do easy push-button back-ups of your User folder to a second hard disk; something every Mac owner should be doing.
I would like to see a user manual added to explain what the available options do.
As useful as a backup solution between hard drives may be for some people. This is a very crippled cocoa wrapper for rsync if you can't specify a remote host.
dnasralla reviewed on 13 Jan 2012
One of the reasons I like this package is that I can say specifically which files I want synced - most other software only had control at the folder level. I specific use was for a few particular files.
SJUNAIDN reviewed on 02 Jan 2012
I was suspicious that my NAS was about to die but I think the problem was the way Mac was trying to copy files from SMB shared drive over the network.
rsync has started copying the data straight away while Mac used to keep showing the status message "Preparing to copy".
This is a real good software.
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Wikno reviewed on 01 Jul 2011
I haven't tried 'synctwofolders, but this just works. A little explanation of which parent folder to select would have been useful, but it only took one error to figure this out. for free, hard to beat.
+9
cintra reviewed on 01 May 2008
Needless to say I use it to sync a number of other items. There should be a donate button somewhere for this 'must have'..
Lomovogt reviewed on 01 Aug 2006
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Analog Kid reviewed on 11 Jul 2006
I would like to see a user manual added to explain what the available options do.
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MadMacMad reviewed on 25 May 2006
sync my 2 folders fine.....
i like this & it's free
thank you
ssh user@server:/path
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elev007 rated on 23 Sep 2011