Keep your Outlook E-Mails, contacts, calendar items etc. in sync on multiple PCs with the new version of Easy2Sync for Outlook. If you’re using Outlook and multiple PCs (Desktop and notebook), then Easy2Sync is just what you need. 😉
The new version has an improved sync overview dialog and password support for Exchange servers.
Download our Outlook Sync program!
Easy2Sync for Outlook has a neat user interface which is just great for most of us. But sometimes, you want to use batches or links. And for these occasion you can also run the sync from command line with parameters.
Our sync program for Outlook offers a lot of things to tweak here:
/SyncAllAndExit
/SyncAll
/SyncAndExit:MyTasktName
/Sync:MyTaskName
/FromAutostart
/IgnoreNetworkError
/NoSplash
/RunOutlookAfterClose
/Delayed
/Delayed:n
I won’t go into details here, most things explain themselves here, I think. If you’re interested, just run the program and press F1, there’s a link to the details in the programs help. (If you want to download the Freeware Edition, click here.)
Another day, another release. Version 1.22 didn’t last very long because we had the wrong language in the assistant. That’s fixed now, our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
The new release also fixes a minor problem with configuration under Windows 98 (when working with diskettes.)
Do you want to try Easy2Sync for Outlook? You can download the Freeware Edition here.
Yes, Easy2Sync has some special terms, because some very special things can happen during the synchronization (both for file synch and e-mail synch).. Want to know what that means? Simply press F12 (which open the options), and on the first page wait with the mouse cursor over the synch case item you want to know more about. A tooltip with the explanation will appear.
Download Easy2Sync for Files/ Download Easy2Sync for Outlook.
On some Windows systems, USB devices (USB sticks, USB hard disks or whatever) like to change their drive letter. It’s their idea of having fun. Plug it in and it’s E:\, take it out, plug it in again and it’s F:\. Great. How can you synchronize your files with such a chameleon? Any path that you enter is bound to be wrong, sooner or later. So how can you synchronize with it?
Well, you can, with Easy2Sync.
First, make sure that the device has a unique name. You can edit that it its properties, if necessary.
At the task, where you’d normally enter the drive letter, you can enter the drive name, along with some special markers:
In General: %DRIVELETTER:MyDriveName%:\
The percent signs, the colon and the word “DRIVERLETTER” are pre-defined markers. You only have to fill in the name of your USB drive. If your USB stick had the name “MyUsbStick”:
%DRIVELETTER:MyUsbStick%:\
Or if you want to synchronize with a subdirectory:
%DRIVELETTER:MyUsbStick%:\MySubdirectory\
Try it:
When you’re synchronizing files, you may encounter the problem that the file can’t be synchronized because it’s locked.
And sometimes it’s not really important. If you’re backing up 100.000 files every day, why worry about one that is currently open? You can instruct Easy2Sync for Files not to report such copy problems. Have a look at the options:
You can simply check “No message box on copy errors”.
Try it and Download Easy2Sync for Files.
When you’re synchronizing files, you may encounter the problem that the file can’t be synchronized because it’s locked.
Now, there a different levels of file locking. Easy2Sync for Files automatically tries to make the best out of the situation and tries to copy the file whenever possible while detecting and avoiding certain risks in the involved Windows functions. But sometimes that’s not enough. Sometimes files just can’t be copied (and there may be a good reason for that).
So the only thing left is to close the application that’s locking the file. If you know which one that is, you can enter it into the options:
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Before running the task, Easy2Sync will check if the application is running and ask you to close it, so that the synchronization can take place. This is useful for example for database applications.
Try it: Download Easy2Sync for Files
As Golem reports, there’s a problem with Microsoft’s OneCare that can lead into the deleting of the entire PST file (which contains all your e-mails). Well, that’s definitely a great protection against e-mail viruses, but perhaps not what you want… 😉
As always, doing a backup is a great idea if you like your data.
You can backup or synchronize your Outlook data with Easy2Sync for Outlook. However, if you only want to automate the backup your PST-file, simply use Easy2Sync for Files. Even the Freeware Edition will be good enough for this job. You can get it here: Download Easy2Sync for Files.
Example 1: Only office documents should get synchronized.
Positive list for files:
*.xls
*.doc
*.ppt
Example 2: Backup files should not get synchronized.
Negativliste for files:
*.bak
*.backup
Copy of *
Example 3: Backup folders should not get synchronized.
Negative list for directories:
Backup8
Example 4: The backup folder in the logfile directory should not get synchronized.
Negative list for directories:
\logs\backup
Example 5: Only files in the root directory and in the folders “src” and “res” should get synchronized. These folders are at top level.
Positive list for folders:
\src
\res
Example 5: Only files in the root directory and in the folders “src” and “res” (and their subfolders) should get synchronized. These folders are at top level.
Positive list for folders:
\src
\src\*
\res
\res\*
Example 7: Only files in the subfolders “src” and “res” should get synchronized. Several directories with these names can exist in the directory tree:
Positive list for files: (yes, files)
\*\src\*
\*\res\*
Try it: Download Easy2Sync for Files
Yes, it’s release time. Now it’s the turn of Easy2Sync for Outlook.
There are quite a few changes this time, like UI improvents, a second trigger folder, a new task type and enhanced Vista compatibility.
Changing the help system is a big thing, and, well, we missed one thing in the last release. The help was complete, but the F1 hotkey didn’t bring up the right context page for THAT dialog. It’s fixed now, you can find the update here:
A new version of Easy2Sync for Files is out. Version 1.20 brings some useful new details:
Try the new version here: Download.
Easy2Sync for Files can exclude files from synchronization depending on positive and negative lists. These lists are very powerful, but if you don’t know how to handle them, you can also make powerful mistakes.
For each directory and each file Easy2Sync, can check rules to see if this directory or file should be synchronized. Despite their name, negative lists are less restrictive and most of the time a better choice.
A typical mistake is to expect intelligence from the software when applying your rules (especially if you’re using positive lists). Easy2Sync exactly follows your rules but it can’t ‘understand’ them.
Now what does that mean?
Often, you’ll man to synchronize a certain directory. This is normally configured corrected. But your rules may disallow the synchronization of the directory above. Result: Easy2Sync encounters the directory above and notices that the directory above may not be synchronized according to the rules. And thus it ignores the entire sub-tree, including the subdirectory for which you specified special rules.
At first Easy2Sync was developed just to synchronize. Now you can also just copy or overwrite data.
The difference?
When synchronising, both computers have the same rights. Changes on one computer will be transferred to the other. In a sub-dialog of the first page of the task properties you can choose other modes.
In the copy mode, one computer is the slave (the target computer) and only receives the changes (of the source computer). If you change something on the target computer, Easy2Sync will undo this and delete your changes. Changes on the source computer however, will be copied to the target computer.
Overwriting is the same as copying, with one difference: In the overwrite mode Easy2sync will never ever delete any files. Even if you delete a file on the source computer, it will not be deleted on the target computer.
Moving is also quite similar to copying. With one difference: The file will be deleted from the source PC after copying it to the target PC. You can choose whether you want to move both files and directories or move only files and keep the directory structure on the source PC.
To flatten the structure means that the files aren’t simply copied from the source to the target PC, but the directory information will be lost. No matter in which subdirectory of the source PC the file was stored, but will be copied directly into the target directory (and not in any subdirectory). Just like a Copying mode this task type always works in the specified direction. If several files with the same name exist in different source directories, the newest one will win the conflict in the long run (maybe only after several synchronizations).
Want to try? Download.
Today’s the shortest tip ever: Did you now you can change the size of Easy2Sync’s main window? Simply drag the border or click on the maximize button. (This works with Easy2Sync for Files and Easy2Sync for Outlook.)
