Nothing sucks worse than getting to the office in the morning and realizing you left the most recent copy of an important file—whether it's your to-do list or a PowerPoint presentation—on your home ...

Gbridge creates a VPN connection for moving, backing up, and synchronizing files and folders securely with little muss and fuss; FreeFileSync takes an Explorer-like approach to comparing and syncing ...

The popular cross-platform file-syncing application Dropbox is a hit among Lifehacker readers, but it has one major drawback: It only syncs files placed inside the My Dropbox folder. Here's how to get ...

Hopefully most our readers here have a good backup routine in place. After learning the lesson the hard way, I now I use an obsessive combination of a cloud-based system (I use SpiderOak, which we ...

Sync is a cloud storage and file-sharing service that recalls Dropbox's earliest days. Whereas the latter keeps adding features, the former focuses on one thing: syncing files. It works quietly in the ...

I’m a big fan of cloud-storage services like Dropbox and Windows Live SkyDrive, which make it a snap to sync and share your files. However, there’s one limitation I don’t like: To add a folder to your ...

Dropbox Folder Sync allows you to set up sync links for the data Dropbox doesn’t easily sync, and does it without moving anything from Windows Explorer. Dropbox is a useful service that proves its ...

If you need to keep an identical set of files and folders on two different computers or on other disks, or in different locations, file and folder synchronization utilities will help you do so easily.

One of the most important actions you should perform when using a computer is backing up the content on your hard drive. Backing up files might create redundant information, but this process helps to ...

These days, it seems like almost everyone in business carries a laptop, tablet or other portable computing device. Additionally, it's not uncommon to see some business travelers carrying two or more ...

It can be an exhausting job to copy files from one computer to another, whether it’s a new laptop or that processing monster you always wanted. Without the right means or methods, sometimes simple ...