Sync Toy
Monday, February 4th, 2008http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx
To schedule a task using the operating system:
- From the Start menu, select All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Scheduled Tasks.
- Select Add scheduled task to start the Scheduled Task Wizard. You will see a list of possible programs to run.
- SyncToy may appear as an option in the list. If SyncToy does not appear in the list, click Browse and go find it.
(Note: Odds are, it’s in your c:\Program Files\Microsoft\SyncToy directory)- The wizard will next prompt you to enter how often you want to run the scheduled SyncToy (for example, daily, weekly, et cetera). Select a frequency.
(Note: I’d suggest weekly unless you make lots of changes to your documents)- The next page asks when to start the task. Select a start time.
(Note: I’d suggest middle of the night.)- The next page asks for the user name and password to run the program under. Enter your user name and password.
- The final page contains an option to open the properties dialog when the wizard ends. Select this checkbox.
- Modify the Run textbox to include (append) the –R command line option. –R all by itself will run all folder pairs that are active for run all. (Note: Sufficient if you only have this one pair, or other similar pairs. In which case, you’re done with this step) If you want to run just a single folder pair, add –R“My Pair” to the end of the command line. Note: there is a space before the hyphen but not one after the R. If the folder pair name contains a space, surround it with quotation marks, as the example above shows. For another example, assume that SyncToy is in the folder named C:\My Folder and that you want to run a folder pair named “My folder pair.” Enter the command line as follows, including the quotation marks: “C:\My Folder\SyncToy.exe” -R”My folder pair.” Note that there are two sets of quotation marks in this case: one is around the path to the SyncToy program file and the other surrounds the folder pair name.





