Looking for a program that I can...

[nook]

use to sync items from my desktop computer to my PowerBook. Something that looks at modified dates and replaces files accordingly. Thanks!!!

 

[nixgeek]

If you're handy with the command line, you can use rsync to sync your two Macs.

If you need a GUI, there's RsyncX.

 

[nook]

I am syncing between a PC running WinXP and my PowerBook running OSX10.4.8 over my network at work. Can I do that with RsyncX? Will it update only the files that have had changes made to them and not re-copy files that haven't been changed? As an example: I'vegot 1gig of files that have previously been synced using RsyncX, 5 files totaling 6megs have been changed. When I run RsyncX again, will it re-copy the whole gig or just the 5 files?

 

[symphonix]

According to Wikipedia, yes, RSync will only transfer files that have changed. In fact, if there are only minor changes to a very large file, RSync's algorithm won't need to transfer the entire file. Neat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync