Hello All. I'd like to be able to sync between my Desktop and my flash drive so that I always have the same information on both. Please can someone advise me? Thanks
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I'm actually looking to sync the settings, book marks, saved passwords history between my desktop and portable firefox. For example...if I do some browsing and saving on each individually, when I sync them, I want the new information from each to be sync'd up.
It's about Firefox...
There is an extension which can do that. I don't know about its portability.
Maybe someone else does???
“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.” - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Thanks, however, that is a backup utility, and not a sync program...if I make changes independent of the desktop and the thumb drive, I want all the changes to update to each other
I Use SyncBack (http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html#freeware) and works fine, ya can tell him which folder to keep synchronized ad it does its job
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Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
-Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Strategic Assessments
I use this too, I've found it the best free backup, sync utility out there.
You probably don't want to sync everything. If you ever check that little button that says "Remember my login" when you login to your bank, you don't want that on your portable device in case it is stolen.
I have been synchronizing my bookmarks with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2367 and it's predecessors for a long time. It works with both the desktop and portable versions of FF. It puts your bookmarks on an FTP or WebDAV site that you choose. I put mine on a server at work. With a few helper files you can even make your xbel.xml file into a pretty list of links accessible from any web browser.
Microsoft SyncToy works for me.
All you have to do us set it to synchronize:
C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR_USERNAME]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[EIGHT_RANDOM_CHARACTERS].default\
and
[THUMBDRIVE_LETTER]:\FirefoxPortable\Data\profile\
I've been using Foxmarks (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410) for a while. The down side is that it relies on an external server to store your bookmarks. But, it works very well at keeping all of my multiple computers in sync.
However, it only stores bookmarks, no passwords or browsing history.
Try the Google Sync plugin. I use it and it works great. I love it.