Second, if the "other" machine is not running, the syncing obviously does not work. Warning about p2p syncing: If you delete files by mistake, they are deleted on the other p2p'd machines. Twice I found folders of recently "synced" files where the copies were the right size and name, but were filled with with garbage. With the "upgrade" to LiveMesh I started having problems. Warning about LiveMesh: For several years I used Microsoft's Foldershare -> LiveSync -> LiveMesh. I have been very pleased with it, although I still use Dropbox for many things. On the day I decided to abandon LiveMesh and try SugarSync for a month (free trail) they had a half price sale. Renting cloud storage costs about $1 per year per GB. SugarSync provides p2p syncing but also saves files on the cloud, but you must pay for cloud storage. Thus, you automatically get a backup of your work.
If you change a file on one of the synced machines the file is changed on the others. You indicate which folder on machine 1 is to be synced with which folder on machine 2 and so on for more folders and more machines. Peer-to-peer (p2p) syncing: My current preference for keeping a mirrored copy of my work is to use peer-to-peer syncing using SugarSync.
If you have suggestions of other tools, please let me know. No guarantees are implied! Software and hardware change rapidly, so do the tools I use. Here are comments on some of the hardware and software that I use or no longer use. The tools you use can make a tremendous difference in your workflow.
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