I have two Windows devices with the same hierarchical structure for data folders. I keep these device folders synced with one another using a third-party app that connects the two devices to one another. It’s like the old DOS-based Norton Commander in that there are two panels, one for the source folder and the other for the destination folder. There is a synchronization function that will compare the source and the destination and allow me to synchronize so that the folder content on Device 2 will be identical to that on Device 1 when I tell it to synchronize. I consider Device 1 to be the Master device, so I always sync Device 2 to Device 1, never the other way around. (There are a number of choices on what/how to synchronize; my habit is to first ‘merge to destination’ {this makes sure all of the folders/files on Device 1 are also on Device 2} and then to ‘force to destination’, {this makes sure that there are no files on Device 2 that are not on Device 1}). The program works only on Windows devices. The synchronization is not automatic – I have to open the program and choose what/how I want at that moment to synchronize. If files change on Device 1 or Device 2, they will not be changed/deleted on Device 2 until I initiate the synchronization.
Some of the synced files are .lnk files (shortcuts). Some .lnk files are internal ones, pointing to a file in some other location on the device. Since the folder structure (and files within the folders) is/are the same on both devices, the .lnk files on Device 1 will work on Device 2. Other shortcuts are external ones, pointing to websites.
I want to try SugarSync to do the synchronization because I want dynamic synchronization. But, SugarSync says it does not sync .lnk files. I am assuming that SugarSync will upload them from Device 1 and keep a dynamic record of them for that Device, but it will not sync them to Device 2. So, how do I manage to keep the .lnk files on Device 2 automatically/dynamically the same as they are on Device 1?
I ask this about SugarSync because I eventually want to use it, as well, when I add an Apple laptop in 2024. (I don’t know enough about Apple devices (such as a laptop) yet to know a) whether I can put the same folder structure on the Apple device as I have on the Windows Device, b) whether there are such things as internal shortcuts on an Apple device that work the same way as internal shortcuts on a Windows device, c) whether an internal shortcut on a Windows Device will work on an Apple device if the folder structure (and files within the folders) is the same on the two devices, d) whether an external shortcut (a link to a website) on a Windows Device will work on an Apple device.
But, I am hoping that SugarSync will keep my anticipated Apple laptop and my current two Windows devices, one of which is/will be the Master, all looking pretty much the same as far as folders and folder content goes, even when the folder content includes internal and external links.
