Super Flexible File Synchronizer
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Screen review: Profile Overview tab

The "Profile Overview " tab presents a master list of loaded profiles, with checkboxes to schedule or run individual or multiple profile synch tasks. The user can also select and browse or edit individual profiles.

 

The heart and power of SuperFlexible is concentrated in this one screen. You can synchronize one set of folders at a time, or check most or all of them and run them as a batch, attended or unattended.

One feature I really appreciate is Profile Groups. I use the first word of the profile name to refer to profiles common to single machine, device or location synch tasks. To me, "PHX-DT-to-Vaio" just means desktop-to-laptop profiles at our Phoenix location.

For example, the full name of the "Favorites" profile above is "PHX-DT-to-Vaio Favorites". Here, SuperFlexible will collapse the entire list of profiles that begin with 'PHX-DT-to-Vaio' into a single '+' line. You can see that the Castro Valley desktop to laptop profiles are collapsed into the 'CV-Vaio' '+' line.

My "My Documents" folder really is quite large, so I defined some subtasks (My Prefs and Transport) to avoid having to compare several thousand files. But, I do notice that SuperFlexible is much faster than my old single-threaded file synch program, so that really large folder compares do not take that long.

My web site folder contains over 8,000 files. Indexing and creating the compare used to take my old synch program around 60 seconds - an eternity. SuperFlexible is ready to go in about 6 seconds, 10 times as fast.

In this Profile Overview panel you can set scheduled profiles to run unattended. Or, you can uncheck the checkbox and walk through the execution of each profile, in a timesaving kind of "semiautomatic mode".

Sharp-eyed readers will note that SuperFlexible is one of the profiles in my synch profile suite. That's right -- if you have a file synch program, why on earth would we expect to have to update each machine's preferences on all machines? I can maintain the same sets of profiles and preferences across several machines and locations. For details, see also the discussion on the Options tab.

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