SyncToy - PC Magazine Best Free Software of 2010

I was pleased this morning to read that SyncToy 2.1 made it to PC Magazine list of "Best Free Software for 2010".  According to the article: “What Microsoft once called a "powertoy" is now a great folder-to-folder synchronization tool. It's great for backing up data from local to network storage once in a while, either manually or scheduled”.

SyncToy is a tool that is based on the Sync Framework and is managed out of our group.  With over 1.8 million downloads since the release of version 2.0, it continues to be a great example (and test) of the Sync Framework.

If you are interested in giving SyncToy 2.1 a try, it can be downloaded from here.

Liam

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 07, 2010
  Congratulations!  It is definitely a useful tool.  It's just a pity it doesn't enable the SeBackupPrivilege if available (usually when the user is a member of the Backup Operators group) - that would really put it up there as a backup program.

• Anonymous
  November 14, 2010
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• Anonymous
  January 29, 2011
  Does it work correctly anymore? Can someone from MS provide support here? social.microsoft.com/.../9bcbf365-b688-4f25-bc05-e68be15dba84

• Anonymous
  January 08, 2012
  Unfortunately, the Echo function doesn't work as intended, as it does not make a mirror of the source folder to the backup ___location. If there are extra folders on the target ___location, it will leave them there.. Quite useless if you want to sync your master folder (let's say music or pictures library on the computer) with a mirror/backup on an external drive...

• Anonymous
  August 29, 2012
  I have the same problem with it as Beachboy