Folder Sync

[Beer Can]

Hi
I am quite new at this, Just wondering if anyone has any code or knows of any that can do the following for me?.

I have two folders, 1 on a laptop and one on a USB stick. I need a simple program with a command button that will make the folder on the USB stick so it is exactly the same as one on my laptop, ie, copy new files and delete old files.

Any help would be much appreciated.
please ?

[RobDog888]

Welcome to the Forums.

What language are you wanting to write this in?

[Beer Can]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply.

I will be using Visual Basic 6

Thanks

[Hack]

I have two folders, 1 on a laptop and one on a USB stick. I need a simple program with a command button that will make the folder on the USB stick so it is exactly the same as one on my laptop, ie, copy new files and delete old files.

The simplest method would be to delete the folder on your stick, and just copy the folder from your laptop on over to it whenever necessary. In Post #2 of this thread there is a very neat example of how to copy a folder. I've used this a number of times.

BTW: Love your user Id and the product it represents!

[Beer Can]

Hi Hack

Thanks for your reply.

I already have a program that simply copies the folders, but the size of the folder is more that 5Gb.
When doing more than 1 laptop it can be quite time consuming deleting the entire folder and than copying it back again, especially as there is usually very little change,

I just need a simple piece of code that what will look at the source folder and the destination folder, copy any new files and delete any old files from the destination that are no longer in the host.

Cheers !

[dglienna]

My friend uses Total Commander for backups, from one machine to another. It copies only changed files.

[Beer Can]

But does it delete old files?

[Beer Can]

This program does just what I need,

replicator

But I need a far simpler one with no options of selecting folders. - just a single command button and a progress bar

Anyone help ?