Hello, here is my situation...
I have a bunch of documents organized in a tree structure of say around 100 folders and subfolders and so on...these documents are on my laptop hard drive but I also keep a copy on a USB memory stick.
Sometimes I work on a different computer and I may update documents directly on the USB stick.
Needless to say my 'problem' is clear -- every few days/one-two weeks/etc. I want to 'sync' up the USB drive with the laptop tree structure.
I'm looking for a program that I can run with the following logic:
source location is USB drive; target location is c:\documents
copy all files from the source to the target, but
if the file name is the same on the target but a newer date, then copy the target file to the source
This would give me the functionality that I need (keeping both things in sync). So far I can use the Windows Explorer to drag and drop but it will give me warnings on every file (tedious) and also it doesn't allow for target->source copy it only asks if I want to overwrite the target (even if the target is newer).
Also, backup programs seem to be overkill or will plainly not support a 'virtual' USB drive as a source, or will want to back up to a compressed file or an image/etc. Not what I'm looking for.
Thoughts, recommendations?
Thank you!
I have a bunch of documents organized in a tree structure of say around 100 folders and subfolders and so on...these documents are on my laptop hard drive but I also keep a copy on a USB memory stick.
Sometimes I work on a different computer and I may update documents directly on the USB stick.
Needless to say my 'problem' is clear -- every few days/one-two weeks/etc. I want to 'sync' up the USB drive with the laptop tree structure.
I'm looking for a program that I can run with the following logic:
source location is USB drive; target location is c:\documents
copy all files from the source to the target, but
if the file name is the same on the target but a newer date, then copy the target file to the source
This would give me the functionality that I need (keeping both things in sync). So far I can use the Windows Explorer to drag and drop but it will give me warnings on every file (tedious) and also it doesn't allow for target->source copy it only asks if I want to overwrite the target (even if the target is newer).
Also, backup programs seem to be overkill or will plainly not support a 'virtual' USB drive as a source, or will want to back up to a compressed file or an image/etc. Not what I'm looking for.
Thoughts, recommendations?
Thank you!