Briefcase problems with Vista

[Victor Delta]

I have used the Briefcase facility with a USB Dongle for many years to keep
a number of files synchronised between my home and office pcs. Never really
had any serious problems doing this.

Just upgraded to a Vista machine at home and the Briefcase facility is
throwing some wobblies, occasional error messages etc (e.g. "some files have
sync copies that are inaccessible etc..."). Has anyone else had such
problems and if so what is the solution?

It's making me think that perhaps it's time to move on to a better utility -
hopefully freeware - for syncing such files. Can anyone recommend one that
works well please - or any other ideas to solve the problem. The Vista Sync
centre doesn't appear to work with USB Dongles.

Thanks,

V

 

[Lang Murphy]

I have used the Briefcase facility with a USB Dongle for many years to keep
a number of files synchronised between my home and office pcs. Never really
had any serious problems doing this.

Just upgraded to a Vista machine at home and the Briefcase facility is
throwing some wobblies, occasional error messages etc (e.g. "some files
have sync copies that are inaccessible etc..."). Has anyone else had such
problems and if so what is the solution?

It's making me think that perhaps it's time to move on to a better
utility - hopefully freeware - for syncing such files. Can anyone
recommend one that works well please - or any other ideas to solve the
problem. The Vista Sync centre doesn't appear to work with USB Dongles.

Thanks,

V

Sorry... I don't have any experience whatsoever with Briefcase. The only
SWAG I can take on this is that maybe, just maybe, the delta's between XP's
version of NTFS and Vista's version of NTFS might have something to do with
this.

That's assuming, of course, that your office PC is running XP and it's
drive are formatted NTFS.

That said, have you run chkdsk on both PC's?

Sorry, don't even have a SWAG on the Vista sync center not working with USB
dongles.

Lang

 

[Frank]

I have used the Briefcase facility with a USB Dongle for many years to
keep a number of files synchronised between my home and office pcs.
Never really had any serious problems doing this.

Just upgraded to a Vista machine at home and the Briefcase facility is
throwing some wobblies, occasional error messages etc (e.g. "some files
have sync copies that are inaccessible etc..."). Has anyone else had
such problems and if so what is the solution?

It's making me think that perhaps it's time to move on to a better
utility - hopefully freeware - for syncing such files. Can anyone
recommend one that works well please - or any other ideas to solve the
problem. The Vista Sync centre doesn't appear to work with USB Dongles.

Thanks,

V

Victor, I too used briefcase for many years until a little over a year
ago when we first beta tested Vista. Briefcase simply would not function
correctly under Vista. I filed bug reports with every build for months
with no response.
Briefcase simply will not function correctly under Vista.
But, try syncing files using the sync center (control panel/sync center).
Frank

 

[Victor Delta]

Victor, I too used briefcase for many years until a little over a year ago
when we first beta tested Vista. Briefcase simply would not function
correctly under Vista. I filed bug reports with every build for months
with no response.
Briefcase simply will not function correctly under Vista.
But, try syncing files using the sync center (control panel/sync center).
Frank

Thanks Frank. However, as my office pc is still XP, can I use the sync
centre at the vista (home) end?

V

 

[Frank]

Thanks Frank. However, as my office pc is still XP, can I use the sync
centre at the vista (home) end?

V

I believe you need to download and install synctoy from MS.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx

Frank