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Put Your USB Drive To Work: 5 Strategies For Going Mobile: Page 10 of 22



SyncBack provides a variety of options to help keep data in sync between any two directories.

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Windows has had a native feature to do this kind of synchronization since Windows 95: the Briefcase. When you copy files from your computer into a Briefcase folder on a USB drive, they can be automatically synchronized back with their originals if any changes are made to them on another computer. It's one of the simplest ways to do this sort of thing, and it's surprisingly under-utilized, although it's also pretty limited.

Put Your USB To Work


•  Introduction

•  Be Productive

•  Run An OS

•  Maintain Passwords

•  Synchronize Data


•  Encrypt Your Data

•  List Of Resources