Russell McMahon wrote:
>>> Microsoft's SyncToy works great, but I don't like the droppings
>>> that it
>>> leaves in every directory it touches ("SynctoyID.txt"). Is there a
>>> way to
>>> turn off this option, or can someone suggest an alternative?
>>> Especially one
>>> that can syncronize folders automatically (every so often?)
>
> XXCOPY (not XCOPY ) does  afair job of this. You have to run it on
> each occasion but this can be automated easily enough.
>
> Unfortunately, for jpg photos, if you rotate the image, which simply
> alters the rotate bit, it sees the file as having changed and will
> rewrite the old image from source. But, for many purposes it works
> well.

Wow, XXCOPY indeed looks very impressive. I'll definitely try it out next 
week. 

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