Originally Posted by
acidfast7
I have a 2006 BlackBook, a 2008 24" iMac, a 2008 alu unibody MacBook, a 2009 MacBookAir, a 2012 rMacBookPro, a 2013 MacBookAir and a 2015 iMac that I keep synchronised with all of my files (between 150GB and 2TB depending on which machine) with DropBox. I have a different set of computers (two Win machines, 2 iMacs and 2 MacBookPros) that sync all data in between them and with my large capacity machines from the first set of machines.
It's about £100 per year and I usually just set and forget.
I can understand if one has 100s of TBs to sync, but even then it should be lightning fast with the highspeed over here (southeast England, southern coast, essentially London commuter belt now) where 350Mb/s is around £50/mo.
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My hat goes off to you! Seriously. I'm impressed with your setup. For me, I'm content with my one machine with backup in place.
And, as for Internet speed, you Europeans are fortunate. Here in the U.S., corporations control the speeds with get, with very little government intervention. As a result, most people don't even have 100 Mbps (or anywhere close to it). I don't even want to tell you the high price I'm paying for the slow speed I get. I'd be too embarrassed. :-(
But, still, that's not the reason for not syncing. I just found there were too many complications. Something goes wrong and a machine has an older version of a file, and you modify that file without realizing it, and then that file overwrites the correct version, etc. I just don't want to deal with all of that. I prefer just to have one machine, and to transfer the files I need to another machine if I need to work on another machine.
"To itch his own," as the saying goes. ;-)