File Management

[GoingGalt]

I'm hoping for people to share how they manage their files between machines as I need ideas in taming the madness I'm going through.

My current hardware includes a business laptop for my own company (which I spend 80% of my time on), a personal desktop, Windows Home Server machine, and an external drive for redundant backup.

My problem is that I do a lot of personal and business work on the laptop which makes file syncing with my desktop difficult. At the same time, I use the server to backup and archive everything. I've thought about using a cloud service that I could access my files from regardless of the machine but I still would want the files stored locally and synced with my server. WHS sucks as a web interface and using files so that's not an option. Suggestions as to how to make my file work flow easier? What are other people doing?

Thanks!

 

[CA19100]

I use Dropbox to sync my Windows desktop and my Mac laptop. It works great.

All the active stuff goes into the Dropbox folder, which is automatically synced any time either machine is online. As I finish things, I move them out of the Dropbox folder into my main machine's Documents folder (which gets backed up frequently). Periodically, I'll just replace the other machine's Documents folder with the updated one, just so the old stuff is available on there if I ever need it.

Give it a shot and see if it does what you need. 2GB is free; you can buy more space if you need it, though I haven't needed to.

http://www.dropbox.com/

 

[GoingGalt]

Looks like Dropbox is very similar to Google Drive. Any differences I should be aware of?

 

[CA19100]

Not sure; never used Google Drive. But I'm fairly sure DropBox isn't mining my files for advertising data. 🙂