background: I've been using FreeFileSync portable (the author's version not the PA one) for a few years now. Before that I used DirSync Pro. I've a grumble with FFS about it not writing logs at the moment so I took another look at DirSync Pro latest.
I like it. It is natively portable (though not in PA form).
Possible negs are that it is java so appears slower than FFS and munches quite a lot of memory on my XP era system, but that shouldn't bother people with shinier kit.
Worth a look as the PA version of FFS hasn't been updated for some time, Toucan is on hold, Synkron is no longer being developed and IIRC the last time I tried out DSynchronize it was just to idiosyncratic.
Who knows, someone might want to make a PA verion of DirSync Pro after trying it out though I'm likely to stick with the native one if I do decide to use it daily.
Anyway, main reason for posting is that I see a gap in PA's sync toolset and DirSync Pro may be it for some people.
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The FFS issue is a large bug in the app itself. It doesn't work when launched from another process. You can't even run the standard portable package from the PA.c Platform. It's a year-old bug that's easily demonstrable but the publisher seems uninterested in even investigating it let along fixing it: https://sourceforge.net/p/freefilesync/discussion/open-discussion/thread...
Toucan development has been re-started. We'll be discussing it more shortly.
It may be worth looking at DirSync as well, time permitting, of course.
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I wasn't saying anything about the perceived FFS bug as I don't use the PA version so don't care. The PA version of FFS was always f-ed for my batch use anyway *plus* I wasn't raising that point as I know it is a bee in your bonnet.
Let's move on.
I doubt I'll be interested in Toucan even if it is revived unless it learns from similar tools that work on multiple operating systems.
I wasn't saying you, JTH, had to look at DirSync Pro, I was saying people should. Put your hackles down, please, I genuinely believe sync is a gap in the PA offering and tried to put something useful to many forward.
I could have suggested
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unison_%28file_synchronizer%29
if I was trying to be rude. Perfect syncing but not easy to use. I thought I knew my audience
Wm
I'm unsure why you felt the need to use the above tone. There was no malice or comativeness intended or conveyed in my post. And I wasn't implying or stating that I didn't have time to package it. Just that it would fall on a developer to find time to package and maintain it and on me to verify, sign, release and announce it. Please keep things civil in the forums.
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