XPost: alt.windows7.general   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:18:49 -0500, VanguardLH  wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >   
   >> I used to sync data files between my desktop computer running Windows   
   >> XP and my laptop runiin Windows 7 using Dropbox.   
   >>   
   >> Since Dropbox stopped supporting Windows XP yesterday, I've had to   
   >> develop a workaround. Here it is, in case it helps anyone facing a   
   >> similar problem -- one line in a batch file:   
   >>   
   >> XXCOPY J:\Dropbox\*.* G:\Stevedoc\Dropbox\ /BN /s /y   
   >>   
   >>    
      
   Any decent newsreader will automatically omit the sig in a reply -- so   
   why do you need to say so?   
      
   >So one of those destinations must be a mapped network drive.  Then why   
   >do you need Dropbox at all?  There are lots of sync tools, like SyncBack   
   >Free.  You used one but between Dropbox folders yet with drive mapping   
   >the sync could be between any set of folders.   
      
   Well, I might have said thanks, I'll have a look at it, but the troll   
   comment above makes me wonder about your bona fides and that of the   
   software you recommend.   
      
      
   Steve Hayes   
   http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm   
   http://khanya.wordpress.com   
      
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