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• Another reason to love Foldershare: Distributed mirroring!

  I've been using Foldershare for awhile now and I'm absolutely in love with it. Coupled with Exchange Server and an RSS aggregator in Outlook, it has pretty much solved the synchronization problems I've struggled with forever. For those of you not familiar with Foldershare, it's a neat little service (recently purchased by Microsoft) that allows you to keep libraries of files synchronized across a number of computers via HTTPS (i.e., even behind corporate firewalls and public hotspots that otherwise restrict access). The software even provides web-based access to your files on any machine. It's pretty amazing if you ever have to rebuild a computer - just install Foldershare, subscribe to the library, and you have all your files. I did this after running the recovery disk against my temporary replacement hard drive on my Toshiba, and it copied all of my 500+ MB of documents while I was in the shower. In other words, Foldershare comes the closest I've seen to the utopia of virtual folders... Posted Feb 02 2006, 12:11 PM by Tim with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Technology, Rants, Security, Productivity