SyncTime is the easy-to-use and flexible solution to synchronize your files. Keep all your backup copies up to date with the click of a button, with automated schedules, from the Shortcuts app (requires macOS 13 or newer) or even via AppleScript.
* To find out if SyncTime is the right solution for you, you can download and use SyncTime Lite for free. The only limitation of SyncTime Lite is that it discards any previous sync settings when closing and opening the app again. *
You can create as many sync items as you need and customize each one individually. In the standard configuration, a sync item consists of two directories: a source and a destination. You can choose any directory reachable in the Finder: it can be located on your Mac, on an external drive, or on a remote server.
Among the possible options you will find:
• select several sources and destinations: all the sources will be virtually merged and copied to every destination
• overwrite policy: overwrite only if the source file is newer than the destination file, overwrite if the source file has a different timestamp or size, always overwrite or never overwrite
• sync type: one-way sync (copy source to destination), two-way sync (merge source and destination) and one-way move (delete the source files after a successful copy to the destination)
• remove files that don’t exist on the source anymore
• add file filters with names or tags containing specific words or matching a regular expression, or modification dates or sizes in a specific range. Matching files can be excluded or included
• track moved and renamed files
• background syncing: files on your Mac are monitored for changes in real time
• start to sync automatically whenever source and destination become available or set up a custom sync schedule
• dependencies: a sync item will first trigger all its dependencies (if any) and run automatically when they are completed
• backup strategy: files to be overwritten or removed can be moved to the trash, or to a custom directory, or a full, incremental copy of the destination can be made, linking unchanged files
• skip the confirmation dialog once you're confident that the sync behaves correctly
• install AppleScripts (or create your own) to be executed when a specific sync has completed or after all syncs have completed. By default you can install scripts that shut down your Mac, send an email with the sync results, and more.
If you have any requests, suggestions or bug reports, please visit the website by clicking the Support button.
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Wonderful, Powerful & Useful
Micabe2006
This piece of software is wonderful & useful. While being both of these things it is also simple to setup & use; Long story short, I was trying to setup multiple mac's syncing with my NAS server. I had tried to use a different & more expensive solution but it was not working. I had even paid for a more expensive version of this syncing software, because the express ver. would not mount & dismount SMB shares with differing credentials then the account that is on LAN Mac. On top of that the other software as one of the most restrictive license setups in town. Rather then tethering a "single" seat to a person or household, like most other pieces of software. A "single seat" is tethered to 1 computer/CPU & their DRM REALLY enforces that! If your trying to sync multiple macs in my case there is 5 of them that means I would have to buy 5 $50 copies of this software. For my purposes this software would be useless.This led me to SyncTime. I used the lite version to test & see if ti could mount & dismount my SMB shares which it did without issue. Thank you for making this software; Also thank you for how you designed the software as well. This piece of software is WELL worth the money!
Does exactly what i need, nothing more, nothing less. However...
LoneSh00terPhoto
like i said, it does exactly what i need. i want to love it but a crippling issue as arisen and that issue seems to be a memory leak. i have it set to start at login and my imac only goes to sleep, never logging out as i’m the only user. i leave the sync window open to monitor the progress. after a few days and sync routines, activity monitor shows the memory allocated to it has ballooned. on startup it consumes about 85MB with my syncs configured. after 3 days, the memory allocated had ballooned to over 20 GIGABYTES. it seems it holds all of the files it transfers but never lets them go after the transfer is complete? i only noticed this when i woke up my iMac from sleep this morning and it was acting sluggish despite only being 2 weeks old with a fresh install of High Sierra.i’ll keep a closer eye on it over the next week and update the progress. if the problem persists, i’ll escalate it to the dev. if it doesn’t, i’ll edit this out of my review and adjust it accordingly.
Developer Response
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Look No Further. This Is It.
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SyncTime takes the complex, confusing, and stressful topic of syncing and make it friendly, simple, and effortless. The app presents the utility in a way that seems intuitive throughout, but does not compromise in power and edge-case. This can only happen if a developer understands good design and takes great care. SyncTime feels excellent, both in terms of experience and as a native Mac citizen. You'll feel right at home, never confused nor worried about your syncs.As mentioned, the app presents syncing in a simple and straightforward manner, but that does not mean it lacks powerful features. Here are some highlights:- You can hard-code exclusions from the sync based on filename, filetype, age, size, or tag. Or you can manually select files themselves for exclusion.- Instead of just replacing older versions of a file with a newer one, you can send the older one to a separate backups folder- You can make your sync conditional upon other syncs finishing first- You can group various syncs together to better organize or run all at once.- You can run custom scripts upon sync completion- You can add custom tags to synced-over itemsLastly, the developer is very attentive to his users. He hears you out and implements accordingly. You can tell he cares not only about making his app evermore excellent, but making his users happy too.Try the free Lite version. You'll notice its the sync utility you always wanted. And then buy the full version. You won't regret it.
Rock solid sync utility
Patnip
I HIGHLY recommend this app for syncing disks / folders.I have two airport disks in two different buildings on my property. Each is a large WD Elements disk, so no RAID protection. I use one as an active network disk containing an archive and a local “Dropbox” between computers. The other is a safe copy of the active disk in case it fails or is otherwise damaged (which has happened over the years). I use SyncTime to keep the safe copy in sync with the active disk. I could do this manually, but I create some rather large files which can take time to copy and I have to remember to sync them anytime the active disk changes. I found SyncTime years ago to automate the sync as a nightly process. I recall setting up the nightly sync in a matter of minutes and it’s been running, without fail, ever since (again for years).To be honest, I find the interface to SyncTime somewhat unintuitive and quirky. It feels like it’s constructed for the way the author thinks and not necessarily for the (this) end-user. Then again, it’s not like I’m setting up syncs on a daily basis, so other than the initial setup, I rarely look at it to build familiarity. That said, once I figured it out, setup was quick and syncs have been FLAWLESS. Again, I highly recommend this app.
Developer Response
Thank you for your comment. I would be interested to hear what exactly you find unintuitive or would have expected to be different, so that I can improve it for other users as well. Thank you for your time.
• Fixed an issue that caused the “Browse Backups” menu item to open the destination folder rather than the backup folder when the backup strategy was set to “Move old files to…”
• Fixed an error that happened when the option “Temporarily unlock locked files before overwriting/removing them” was enabled and a sync needed to remove a nested locked directory.
• Fixed an issue that caused a file removed from one of the Remove/Overwrite/Add lists in the confirmation dialog via the “Add Selected Files to the Filter” menu item to remain present in the other lists.
Version 5.4.4
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