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How to Load SolidWorks Files Faster with SyncBack

Started by Josh M · 10 months ago

I love sitting and waiting for a 50MB file to open, don’t you? Gives you plenty of time to take care of some bills and catch up on politics. File loading is one of the most inefficient times of the day because it invariably leads to 20 minute conversations about the best truck h ... Continue reading »

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  • Rod Uding

    1 year ago

    Hey Josh, how about a link to the SyncBack program! Please!
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  • Josh

    1 year ago

    Dooooooh! Thanks Rod. The link has been added.
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  • Jeff

    1 year ago

    I was just thinking about doing a write-up of Groove, a peer-to-peer file sync system that Microsoft acquired about a year and a half ago. Groove has some pretty cool capabilities regarding file-viewing and real-time meetings but it costs ~$300 per seat and I am guessing that SyncBack is free or close to it?
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  • Josh

    1 year ago

    Divshare? unlimited storage/viewing/uploads/downloads. There's also Amazon S3 which you may be more interested in since your into development. It's pay-per-use. I think Google Drive is still rumors, but if it's like Gmail and increments your storage capacity daily, that would be cool. None offer syncing, as far as I can tell.

    Syncing would probably be a premium service for any of them if that feature is ever added. For S3 there is third party S3 backup that has a sync feature, but I haven't tried it.
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  • Jason

    1 year ago

    Hey Josh, nice write up. I use Syncback to sync up servers at two different locations since it was so slow for one location to pull files from a remote server. Its a great program, it will even setup a windows task scheduler session so you can have it run automatically however often you need. We went ahead an bought the full version for like $30-40 bucks, if anything to just support them since its so handy for us.
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  • Josh

    1 year ago

    Hey Jason, that's a great idea. Much cheaper than setting up a DFS (Distributed File Server). I imagine you have to schedule it to sync pretty often if there's a lot of activity.
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  • Ivan

    1 year ago

    Hey, I found an old post that caught my eye... so, just so I understand this SyncBack correctly. Basically it will download your entire project to local hard drive and sync back any files that have changed to the network, so that the network always contains the most recent up-to-date files. I know PDMWorks does a lot more, but could you say SyncBack is between the level of manually backing up files to using PDMWorks? The reason I say is that right now it's almost simpler for us to do the windows explorer thing for file management than implement PDMW. But I'm always looking for the next better thing.

    Thanks for now...
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  • Josh

    1 year ago

    this post. It's fairly simple to setup PDMW Workgroup. I'm trying to get him to do a post on it as well :)
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