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Help! I need something to replace Briefcase
« on: Dec 19th, 2002, 12:39pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Right gang, here's the situation.
 
I need to create Briefcase-type synchronised archives of network mapped drives, but using a Win98 workstation. W2K and WinXP included the 'Offline Files' tool that would do this, but regular Briefcase throws a wobbly when asked to grab files from a mapped drive because they don't physically exist. Archiving from physical drives is okay, like those within a PC, or even those that actually exist and are shared resources on a network - it's just the mapped drive letter thing.
 
It's a work thing - I've a user directory on our NT servers that is mapped to U: on the workstations. The workstations have Zip 250 drives, and I need to be able to let staff take copies of kids work home for marking. Rather than having to overload the network with huge amounts of traffic as entire folders are copied from place to place, I was hoping to create class/set/group archive using Briefcase and then just transfer what's changed - far nicer for the network to handle!
 
I got a utility from HeatSoft called ADCS, but to be honest it's a bit cryptic and I've given up on it (unless someone else out there can get me a quick-start guide that makes sense) - not as easy as the Briefcase drag'n'drop method of selecting particular folders (like only kids' 9th-grade folders, rather than everything in their filestore).
 
Anyone got any ideas? It seems like this 'Offline Files' tool is exactly what I need, but it's probably not able to run on a Win98 workstation...
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Re: Help! I need something to replace Briefcase
« Reply #1 on: Dec 20th, 2002, 6:20am »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
I don't know of one particularily but I will look around for one.
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Re: Help! I need something to replace Briefcase
« Reply #2 on: Dec 20th, 2002, 11:12am »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
1. Folder Comparison 2002
 
http://download.com.com/3000-2248-10121873.html?tag=lst-0-1
 
2. SyncFS 1.0  
 
http://download.com.com/3000-2248-7361812.html?tag=lst-0-2
 
3. SyncFolders 1.4.118
 
http://download.com.com/3000-2248-10107238.html?tag=lst-0-6
 
4. ViceVersa 1.0.1  
 
http://download.com.com/3000-2248-6614835.html?tag=lst-0-8
 
Here are four from Download.com, all are free and work on Win 98.  #3 advertises itself as better than briefcase.  the links worked while I checked them after logging out of Download, but I suspect they might be dynamic links so if the lose connection go there and search by name.
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Re: Help! I need something to replace Briefcase
« Reply #3 on: Dec 21st, 2002, 4:09pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Cheers Jamming. They all worked fine as posted. I'll give them a try when school re-opens (Jan 6). They all look particularly useful, but none showed up when I Googled for 'replace MS briefcase' and similar...
 
As a temporary measure, I'd copied the entire student year group work folders from the server to my PC with the Zip drive, then used 'Find Files' to dump all those modified/created before the start of the new school year in September. This is okay for the early years, but gets huge for the later years, some of whom have up to 7 years worth of work in total - I'd run out of HDD space before copying them all over! When I'd finished, each year group's work (about 260 kids) from September filled a steady 260-330MB, which easily fitted on a compressed 250MB Zip disk, so copying all the 'excess' is wasteful and un-necessary, slowing the network down and taking about 1 hour to sift and sort before dropping onto the Zip disk.
 
Hopefully at least one of these tools will let me pick and synchronise with just one subfolder in each kid's workspace, or better still deal with date ranges without first mirroring the entire user space to a workstation PC!
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Re: Help! I need something to replace Briefcase
« Reply #4 on: Dec 22nd, 2002, 11:31am »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Glad that those helped you, download.com was I believe bought by CNet, but the name is easy to remember and you can search by trialware, freeware, or shareware.
 
Maybe Trojan Hunter Trialware could be listed there in the future.
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Re: Help! I need something to replace Briefcase
« Reply #5 on: Dec 24th, 2002, 10:33pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
I can vouch for ViceVersa (btw, the lite free current version is 1.02 now).  I started with the free version and liked it so much I upgraded to the Plus version.
  Site link: http://www.tgrmn.com/
  I've been using it for a couple of years now and found it to work quite well.
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Re: Help! I need something to replace Briefcase
« Reply #6 on: Dec 27th, 2002, 4:06pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Thanks Bill - always good to get a user's view. On a real quick run through (still not back at work on the network yet), my initial choice was either ViceVersa or SyncFolders - I'll try VV first.
 
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Re: Help! I need something to replace Briefcase
« Reply #7 on: Dec 29th, 2002, 9:56am »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Let me know which one you decide on and why, I might put it on my parents machine to run updates from a burned CDR, so I don't have to tie up their phone at night for 44k baud dial-up connections. Cool
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