Syncing Two Local Folders

[jojoman]

Hi,

I'm wondering if there is a way to sync two folders on the same hard-drive, so basically I have two identical folders at the same time.

I know this may sound stupid, but this is the reason: I just got this program called "Dropbox", which creates a folder locally on your computer, and whatever you dump into that folder will sync with the online server of Dropbox. This provides a great way to sync and backup your files. However, illogically, I just don't like to open and save files directly inside the local dropbox folder; I much rather save and change files wherever the files were originally, and then have those files sync with the dropbox folder.

Hope this makes sense!

 

[hiddenpremise]

If you have any applescript experience you can write folder actions to do that for you. This is probably the hard way, but I don't know of any others off teh top of my head.

 

[hiddenpremise]

There is a better solution called rsync. It comes built into OS X as a command line tool, but you really need to update to the latest version to use it successfully. Mike Bombich has posted a pretty good guide to using it here http://www.bombich.com/mactips/rsync.html.