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How to sync folders between Mac and PC

I have a Mac at home and a PC Laptop for work. I would like for the photos and itunes libraries to be synced up between my Mac at home and the Laptop PC for work. Is there a way to do that?

— Ra Cevallos

Comments: 3 Responses to “How to sync folders between Mac and PC”

    14 years ago

    That's a tough one. Usually you have your photos in iPhoto on a Mac, but there is no iPhoto on a PC. You have iTunes on both, but syncing over the net could be a huge bandwidth hog and problem if you have even a medium-sized collection.
    In addition, if you don't have a static IP address at home (and work) or a MobileMe account (for back-to-my-mac) then the two machines will not be able to find each other as their IP address changes. And they could both be behind simple firewalls (your home Cable/DSL router and who-knows-what at work).
    This could be a big undertaking if you really want to figure this all out. Not sure how important it is to you. If it was just a small collection of documents, then DropBox might be your solution. But if you have 10,000 photos like I do and a huge music collection, I wouldn't try it.

    Teddy
    14 years ago

    Use Dropbox!

      14 years ago

      The problem with DropBox here is that iTunes and iPhoto collections are usually way too big. You'd need to pay a lot extra to get the storage space at DropBox. Plus, even if you paid for it you'd then have issues with bandwidth -- you'd be sending large amounts of files between each computer and the DropBox servers.

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