Sync Assistant General Description
Sync Assistant is an ergonomic tool to compare two directories or directory trees and assist with file alignment.
A typical utilization of Sync Assistant is when you want to keep a copy of your data files (which you frequently create or update) in a different disk (hard or floppy) for backup purpose. By the way, It is strongly recommended to do that as a daily habit, as the hard disk of your PC will crash sooner or later, without any prior warning.
Sync Assistant will compare two directory trees and tell you the differences in a simple form, allowing you to selectively align files in either direction, just by clicking on buttons or by dragging and dropping file names.
Sync Assistant will not perform any automatic change after detecting and showing the differences between two directory trees. All alignments must be explicitly requested by the user.
The comparison results are presented as file names distributed over five result boxes:
1) files existing only in directory 1
2) files existing only in directory 2
3) files existing in both directories, with same size and date (i.e. "aligned")
4) files existing in both directories, with date more recent in directory 1
5) files existing in both directories, with date more recent in directory 2
The user can move files across the 5 boxes (by dragging and dropping) or press the buttons below the boxes to force alignment of the files contained therein.
Files can be deleted and inspected in terms of length and date/time.
A history panel shows the comparisons performed in previous runs of Sync Assistant, in the form of a list of directory pairs. The user can repeat a previous comparison by clicking on the respective line of the history list.
Sync Assistant is easy to use, essential, fast, safe and reliable. It does what is needed in most cases, nothing more and nothing less. The user interface is intuitive and self explaining. You don't need to read any help or user manual to use it.
Sync Assistant is compatible with all Windows versions.
