![]() Prerequisites FreeFileSync must be downloaded and installed on your computer A sync job that you save can affect multiple pairs of files and folders thus avoiding the need to create one job for each folder pair. Here, you can set up a “there-and-then” sync job or create a sync job affecting certain files and folders on both the source and destination in a particular way. This is available for Windows, Macintosh OS X and Linux and can work with locally-mounted drives or SMB network-shared folders. There is a free open-source application called “ FreeFileSync” which automates the process of keeping your files that exist on two locations in sync. Here, you have to answer a file-owerwrite prompt that the operating system puts up every time you write over an existing file as part of a copy process and this can be awkward if you did something like modify your files’ metadata or edited a photo, You could select the “Yes to all” prompts but this runs a slow copy process which transfers redundant data or work through each folder and file manually and find that you hadn’t reflected all the changes you had to reflect. ![]() This can be annoying especially if you have made changes to a few of the files or added a handful of files to the collection such as the latest downloaded images or a CD “rip”. Normally this will require you to use Windows Explorer or Macintosh Finder to copy the files out to the NAS every time you synchronise them out to your NAS. ![]() Then you buy a high-capacity network-attached storage device to make these files available on your home network at all times and also as a backup or “offload” measure. You use a regular Windows or Macintosh computer to curate your pictures, music and video files and store these files on your computer’s hard disk. ![]()
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