I've read and re-read the help on
briefcase many times and cant see a way to do this.
I have a 'work' computer and a 'home' computer and a portable usb harddrive
for carrying files back and forth.
I'm trying to sync the 'work' files and 'home' files via carrying the usb
drive between them to update.
The 'work' and 'home' have same directory structure(for the files i'm trying
to sync)
I can sucessfully create a briefcase on 'home' comp and put in usb drive.
and
it will sync back to 'home'.
But when I brought it to 'work' and tried to update all, it said sync files
not found
no update.
I even tried renaming the volume name of the C: drive at 'work' to match the
one at 'home' "Disc1part01" but it still doesn't find the folder structure.
Is there any way to do a sync that way.
the help files i"ve been reading only talk about syncing file from a
computer to removable disk then editing the files directly on the removable
disk in the 'remote' computer ie laptop in their example.
I don't want to edit the briefcase files directly because they are working
files I access in my work every day and I dont' want the slow down of
working through a usb hub and also there are many links or references in the
files to the existing
folder structure so I need to keep working from c:\ not z:\ (the usb drive).
any ideas?
to recap
I want to create/edit files on 'home' c:\x
update z:\briefcase\c:\x
move z:\ to 'work'
update z:\briefcase\c:\x
(and the reverse also)
Thanks
Makr
i think the root question here is what is 'briefcase' looking for to tell it
where the sync files are stored? I thought it was going to look for a
matching directory structure, but that is obviously not the case. Then I
thought it might need the volume name of the drive to match and that also
didnt' help. Is it storing in it's database some special kind of file
pointer that will only find matching files on one 'stationary' drive at a
time? eg per the help files
alternately would there be a way to create a briefcase at 'home' and another
one at 'work' and have them communicate between each other?
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