Re: Insomniacal Mac

On 2024-06-12 06:24:00 +0000, Your Name said:

On 2024-06-12 02:17:26 +0000, super70s said:

On 2024-06-11 20:40:44 +0000, Your Name said:

 In ye olde days of MacOS 9 and early MacOS X I used a great syncing app that was very fast,

 Was it ChronoSync by any chance? I still use that to back up my Tiger system.
 I always used Maxtor external HDs (since acquired by Seagate) with my old systems and they had this "One Touch" backup feature with provided software, but I never used that. But all you had to do was touch a button on the external to back everything up.

 It was either "ChronoSync" or more likely "Synchronize! Pro". I went through a few apps testing them until I found one I was happy with.

Yeah I've heard of Synchronize Pro too. It must have been more expensive than ChronoSync so I went with that.

I probably need to do that again so I can ditch the slow CarbonCopyCloner (only use that when doing an initial full bootable backup). I did try "SyncFolders Pro", various versions, but it is utterly useless and never finds any new / altered files to copy.

CC Cloner has saved my bacon more than a few times with bootable systems for new machines. They began introducing more "regularly scheduled backup" features as time went on but I never used them.