You need to be very patient while working through this article as you are transferring lots of data around. If you press cancel, or stop the computer from making the changes it needs to make, it can be frustrating to get things going again as they were originally. Ensure you create new users instead of changing older users after this stage. If you have changed your username and seen the blank shortcuts, change your username back and Vista will recover.
If you have a decent network, you should be fine. As our network is quicker than the internet connection, you will not have any speed loss. If you are loading data form an external hard drive and copying to a network location, you are limited to the speed of the network. The way around this is to plug the hard drive into the Host computer. Move ahead with caution if you have not been too scared. It does work, and works well.
In order for other machines to see this drive we must first share it so that the folder is available to the other computers to see it. We are removing much of the security from your documents. If security is an issue for you, please investigate further. Please ensure that you have backups of all your data before proceeding. I see this as low risk of something failing, even lesser of documents disappearing but you can never be too careful.
Please take note of your computer name. If you have a music, pictures or movies folder located in another location on your computer, share these the same way. If you have a laptop which you move around with you, you will want to ensure you have offline files configured.
This should be OK as we can expect our Vista hard drive to be larger than the one on our XP computer. Find out how much data you want to store as offline files and then give yourself plenty of headroom over this. As you can see, I am using GB for my offline files which includes my documents, pictures and music. There is still plenty of free space. You can then come in here and increase the size without needing to set everything up again. Sync center will pick up where it left off.
You should see the folders you have previously shared in XP. We are now going to set the files to be available offline. This does two things, gives us a backup of our files from our XP machine, and allows us to access files if the XP machine is not on the network or unavailable. While it is best to do this for your documents, it is up to you if you want to do the same for videos and music. I do it for my music, purely for a backup.
As we are going to be running off the network drive most of the time, having offline files turned on or off will not restrict our access to these files whilst both machines are on the network.
I have not done my video files as there is around 80GB of them, meaning I would use up an extra 80GB of the Vista hard drive, as well as still having it in the original location on the XP machine. Depending on how large the folder is, this can take quite some time. Syncing is very fast after the initial sync, generally only a couple of minutes, where the initial sync can take over an hour.
Navigate through Network to your XP computer and select the Documents share you created at the start. If you have lots of data on your Vista machine, this can take a while as you are transferring files over your network. Do this until you have all the corresponding folders pointed to the network shares.
I sync each day at 3AM as I am normally in bed then and my machines are left on. You can set it to sync as you login or logout your computer. Set this to best fit your needs.
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The copying of a file will only take place if the destination file does not yet exist or is older than the source. If you do not include this, only the files in the root of the folder will be copied. Xcopy will overwrite the file in the destination if the source file is newer.
There is no easy way to recover the file in XP or Vista. If a file exists in folder 2 that is newer or the same as a file in folder 1, the file will not be overwritten. You can place batch files anywhere on your computer, but for once I will recommend putting it in the root of your C: drive.
If you have multiple syncs, you can put them all in the once batch file. Start small with some test folders to be safe. Save your file as sync. You can test this out now, by double clicking on the batch file. You should then be able to prove it has worked by both folders containing the same files. Test it some more by putting a text file in folder and then syncing.
Check that the file is copied across to both. Try updating both text files and then syncing your folders. The most recently updated text file should be able to be found on both, with the older of the two being lost forever.
This is slightly different between XP and Vista, but the theory is the same so I will run through how to do this in XP. If your computer is on all the time, 3am is ideal. This is completely up to you. Follow the date prompts and that is it. You are still able to launch the file manually if you require it to happen instantly, but otherwise, your folders will always be synced at the scheduled time.
Please check out part two of this article when it is available Monday , which covers SyncToy so you can compare the two methods and figure out which you would prefer to use.
I feel like there is more control this way. I hope you have enjoyed this article and found it useful.
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