This tool from the Microsoft download center seems pretty cool. It seems to be approx equivalent to SyncBack, which I use. Both are free.
I just wanted to use something to sync my accounts, which are on a USB thumbdrive, with my Vista notebook. My first instinct was to use the Vista Sync Center, which seems to do a reasonable job of keeping a local, synchronised copy of a SMB share. Unfortunately I couldn't get the Sync Center to recognize my thumb drive as a data device (as opposed to an MP3 player or similar) and therefore when I tried to synchronize it, it just kicked off Windows Media Player version 99 to search for and synchronize media files, which was the last thing I wanted.
I get similar problems with Picasa 2 which refuses to stop its bloody media detector, with the result that whenever I plug in the thumb drive, it eagerly scans it for images, coming up with just a few icons and logos. I have told it to disable the media detector, in the obvious place, many times.
I have failed to make any sort of entry for a very long time. I have no real excuse. Some interesting things have happened recently, but the only entry I felt I had time to make was this one. How sad.
