
- Bootable Backups - Make a complete bootable copy of your Mac hard drive.
- Admin Access - Full access to all your files on your Mac.
- Templates - Ability to create Sync and Container document templates to reuse common settings.
- Options - Redesigned and added new features to the Sync Document Option Panel.
- Analyze - Added more file info to Analyze and Trial Sync windows.
- Archive - Added option to compress archived files to save space.
- Container - Added options for scripts and email notifications to Container documents.
- Rules - Ability to execute Shell and Apple scripts to determine if a file should be considered for synchronization.
- Synchronization - Modified Sync Engine logic and implemented Uni-Sync resulting in faster synchronizations in most cases.
- Readiness Status - A new "Readiness" status section reports on whether or not the synchronizer can be invoked.
- ChronoAgent - A brand new utility that runs on the destination Mac. ChronoSync communicates with new ChronoAgent giving you full access and faster connections to a destination Mac.
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Synchronize or Backup
- Synchronize two computers so data gets updated in both directions.
- Backup and keep an exact mirror of all your data.
- Backup to OS X, OS 9, Windows, Linux, externals HDs, iPods and more.
Archive Data
- Archive deleted and older files for later retrieval.
- Automatic archive management using several synchronizer options.
- Manual archive management using the Archive panel.
- Restore and open older versions of files.
- Set archiving parameters based on a specific number of files or the age of files.
- Outline view makes it easy to manage archived files.
Trial Synchronizations
- Run trial synchronizations to see what is going to happen before it happens.
- Exclude specific files from getting updated.
- 'Compare' and 'Delete' actions available.
- Change the direction of synchronization on-the-fly.
Email Notification
- Monitor results of synchronizations using email notification.
- Send emails to multiple addresses.
- Include summary information or detailed logs in email notifications.
Schedule Your Syncs
- Schedule a synchronization to run on daily, weekly or monthly intervals.
- Synchronizations can run automatically when a volume is mounted.
- Automatically wake your system from sleep to run a synchronization.
- Run scheduled synchronizations in the background.
- Schedule multiple synchronizations or the same synchronization multiple times.
Analyze Files
- Analyze panel's outline view displays folders and files in columns.
- Sort, view, open, and check the status of every file.
- View a file's attributes on both sides to compare differences.
- 'Restore' command for file restoration.
- 'Delete' options available.
AppleScript
- Add pre and post synchronization AppleScripts.
- Launch synchronizations directly from an AppleScript.
Relative State Monitoring
- Detects deleted, moved, or renamed files and folders.
- Records a snapshot of every file and folder when you synchronize.
- Detects file changes in both locations.
Flexible
- Runs natively on Power PC and Intel Macs.
- Create an unlimited number of synchronizations.
- Sync one folder with a few files or your entire Home folder.
- Combine multiple synchronizer documents in a Container Document to run as one synchronization.
- Localized in 4 languages - English, French, German and Japanese.
Logs
- Logs show results of all synchronizations.
- View logs on screen, print out, or copy/paste.
- Lists errors, including file name and path.
- Schedule logs shows results of all scheduled syncs.
Filter Out Files and Folders
- Exclude files and folders from your sync using the Analyze panel.
- Use rules to include and exclude files and folders.
- Create rules to synchronize based on your own custom criteria.
Special Options
- Trigger a file to copy based on seven file criteria.
- Preserves Extended Attributes and Access Control Lists.
- Synchronize invisible files.
- Customize sounds when a synchronization completes.
- Option to include Spotlight comments.
- Option to preserve Finder/Spotlight comments.
- A BSD flags sync trigger to monitor changes in a file or folder's BSD flags status.
- A Timestamps sync trigger to monitor changes in a file or folder's Timestamps status.
Safe and Fast
- Files are not replaced until the synchronization completes without errors.
- Data verification matches files byte-for-byte.
- Only copies changed files.
- ChronoSync picks up where it left off if loss of connection occurs.
No User Left Behind
- We constantly improve ChronoSync and all upgrades are free.