Syncing Stuff
I recently got Ubuntu 8 to dual boot with Vista and soon realized it was a pain to have two places to store my music, documents, images, etc. I thought about using an extra harddrive as a shared harddrive where I could keep files for both. But I’m highly organized on the computer (which is funny, since I’m not all that organized off the computer) and didn’t want to deal with creating sixty billion folders and I also liked keeping files in Vista’s Documents, Music, etc. folders. In addition to that (yes, I’m trying to prove to you that I’m not just lazy), I didn’t want to fill up the harddrive with all my files. I’d rather keep them all spanned out across three or four harddrives. The only way to do that was with syncing software. So I tried Vista’s syncing software, but apparently that only works with media devices. You’ve failed me again Microsoft!
I did the obvious thing and visited my favorite place to download stuff. No, not ThePirateBay. The well-named Download.com. In my early days of broadband, I spent a lot of time here downloading everything I could. Did I really need to download 6 different media converters? NO! But dammit, I had broadband and I wanted to test that puppy out. Now Download.com would provide for me once more. I quickly found a nifty free program called GoodSync that easily lets you sync any number of folders with eachother.
As it stands, I’ve got my entire Jeremy folder synced with my Vista-Ubuntu HDD (150GB). I know it’s probably way more complicated to do it this way than to just keep files stored on that HDD, but this way is a lot cooler.
note- for any who is wondering, I originally had Ubuntu accessing the C Drive, but as soon as I logged into Vista and back into Ubuntu again, I couldn’t access it anymore. Vista is a greedy little bitch, ain’t it?
Tags: Technology, Windows
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