Laplink MN-LGD011-XX-US User Manual

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Synchronizing folders with SmartXchange

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se SmartXchange to synchronize two folders in a two-way exchange of files. You can limit the scope 

of the operation by including only the files already in both folders. You can also use SmartXchange to 
update a backup folder quickly. In either case, older files are overwritten, but no files are deleted.

If you have ever copied files back and forth between com-
puters so that they share the latest files, you have synchro-
nized. Unlike the usual copy operation, synchronization 
works in two directions: from one folder to the other and 
back again.
NOTE With SmartXchange, you determine the items to be 
copied by selecting the folder containing the items, not by 

selecting the items themselves. Select the folder on the left 
side of a File Transfer window.
With SmartXchange, you can accomplish this in one opera-
tion, one folder at a time. You can increase the scope of the 
operation by including subfolders within the folder. You can 
limit its scope by exchanging only the files that are on both 
folders already.

Files are overwritten when there are 
newer copies in the other folder.

After SmartXchange, the two folders 
are identical.

Files are not copied when there are 
identical copies in both folders.

Files are copied when they are in 
one folder but not the other.