Brandon Elmo LaLonde wants access to a folder on his school’s network when at home. He asked the Answer Line forum for advice. With the right software, it’s relatively easy to sync the folder on the ...

One of the most important actions you should perform when using a computer is backing up the content on your hard drive. Backing up files might create redundant information, but this process helps to ...

Hopefully most our readers here have a good backup routine in place. After learning the lesson the hard way, I now I use an obsessive combination of a cloud-based system (I use SpiderOak, which we ...

OneSync is a simple file synchronization tool with an easy to use interface. If you want a lightweight application for syncing local folders to network drives, your Dropbox folder, or portable devices ...

In the past we’ve highlighted various ways to share a group of files with across several computers on a network, including using shared folders in Windows or setting up a network-attached storage (NAS ...

I have a laptop which obviously I travel with and would like to have some files sync'd with my desktop PC.<BR><BR>I have configured offline files but that basically allows you to connect to that share ...

Short version of what I'm trying to do is sync my Outlook files from local hard drive to my network drive at work, and I want to try and use robocopy (and a Scheduled Task) to do this nightly. At work ...

The popular cross-platform file-syncing application Dropbox is a hit among Lifehacker readers, but it has one major drawback: It only syncs files placed inside the My Dropbox folder. Here's how to get ...