DirectSync

Downloaded and tried it out: just what I have been looking for. Took a little time to get used to the interface, but that's me, not the app. I'm syncing mostly folders on 4 hard drives, and for backup purposes. Kudos to the author for a great app and for free!

Nice effort but not at all stable. Kept crashing on me when trying to use it with a simple 2 comp network. Ran indexing but then wouldn't sync even though the primary object was intentionally different then the destination for testing purpouses. Maybe the next version/update?

DirectSync worked well synchronizing document folders and Safari bookmarks between my two networked computers (Powermac G3 and iMac G5 on a local network). It didn't do that great with synchronizing mail boxes, though. It messed up my emails and deleted information (pictures, attachments, text) that could have been irretreivable were it not for a complete backup of my home folder that I had carried out just before giving DirectSync a try. The software has also a few quirks : you cannot delete synchronization tasks once you've set them up in the synchronization profile (although individual tasks can be unchecked so that they don't run, but it would be useful to be able to delete them altogether if that's what you want to do), and it's not possible to schedule automatic synchronization. Although this piece of sofware appears to have some serious flaws and some features shortcomings, I would still recommend it for documents and bookmarks synchronization. The author, however, has indicated to me that he was no longer working on DirectSync as he has moved on to other projects. He may get back to it some day and I would hope so, since I think DirectSync has the right approach. Just needs more testing and refinement.

Very nice tool for simple backup needs, especially to a firewire drive or another mac. Exactly what I was looking for.

Users- beware of using the overwrite option in synching. In trying out, only use the default. I lost lots of files when they were overwrote.

Downloaded and tried it out: just what I have been looking for. Took a little time to get used to the interface, but that's me, not the app. I'm syncing mostly folders on 4 hard drives, and for backup purposes. Kudos to the author for a great app and for free!