I would like a way to setup a synchronize between two folders but then have dopus enforce that synchronization continuously. Kinda like a watch for files and copy.
I need this across some network drives to keep in sync with a remote file directly. It would be very cool when working on local web sites to also have dopus automically updated the saved contents on an FTP, for example.
Anyway, hope it will be an option in the future. Thanks for the great sync tools that are in dopus now!!
You could create a scheduled command (e.g. using the AT command) which runs an automated sync (or just a copy updateall) in Opus every few minutes.
It's probably best to schedule it to happen only when the files are unlikely to be changing, though, else you could end up starting a sync while a file is half-way through being updated by someone else... But if you really want it to happen automatically, you could schedule it...
If you know some C++ it'd also be reasonably easy to make a program which detects changes to a directory and fires off the sync but, again, the problem is how to know when the changes have stopped and when it's safe to start synching... If you get that wrong then the sync will start at the wrong time, when there are still changes being made to the folder.
In my experience it's almost always better to manually trigger this kind of thing.
Now there's an idea! That way, I could throw out the tool I'm using for my daily (well, nightly) backups. Except... I can't seem to find out how to automate the synchronizer? Nothing about syncing in the commands. The only thing I can find is how to show/hide/toggle the sync panel, not how to activate it.
COPY UPDATEALL won't do the job, as I'm looking for a complete mirror, also deleting files from the destination if they were deleted from the source.
Yeah, this came up on Yahoo recently. You can schedule a Copy UPDATEALL easily enough but there isn't currently a way to automate the full Synchronize functionality.
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nudel wrote:
Yeah, this came up on Yahoo recently. You can schedule a Copy UPDATEALL easily enough but there isn't currently a way to automate the full Synchronize functionality.[/quote]
Let's all get to together and chant/pray/dance for this one okay? I love the new Sync features! But having the RAW command access to them would be very powerful indeed! 
I use a product called SmartSync which handles this very nicely. You can create a synch profile that watches a directory constantly and will update another directory with its contents as soon as changes are made. Of course, this product can do much more, but thought I would throw this in. Obviously it does not involve Dopus, and you have to have ANOTHER program running, but I use this product extensively in my backup scheme anyway.
Scott