How fast is windows offline files?

tunaaa | 13:47 Sat 21st Feb 2009 | Technology

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I've got around 50,000 files (over 20GB) from the "Documents"(vista)/"My Documents"(xp) folder to sync from laptop (vista) to desktop (xp) every day and I was wondering whether offline files would be fast enough. I've tried synctoy and allway sync and it took over an hour. If offline files is good enough, then I'll set the shell:documents folder to be the offline files cache folder for my laptop so I can work directly from the offline files in the future.

Should I use offline files? Alternatively are there better solutions you would suggest?

Thanks very much

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ChuckFickens

both ways will take ages the first time but after that it will only have to copy changes and wont take long at all.

I'd use Offline files as it will sync automatically on log on and log off, sync toy you have to do manually.

fo3nix

The best way would be rsync, but it's a unix program. You could use it with Cygwin on Windows, but it's a little more tricky than the standard Windows GUI to set up.

Another program I'd recommend is SyncBack. There is a decent free version.

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