I really hate it when I put a lot of work into a document only to discover that I was working on an old version.
Take for instance this last week. I spent several hours updating and rewriting a document. I rewrote several major sections and was feeling really satisfied with what I’d accomplished.
Imagine my shock when I realized that I’d wasted all that time editing an old version of the document! Argh!
Has that ever happened to you?
I work from a desktop and a laptop and I had tried to keep the latest version of each document on both computers. I guess I messed up and it cost my hours of wasted work and a lot of aggravation.
I needed a simple solution
What I needed was a way to keep the files I was working on updated on both my computers.
- I wanted it to be easy to install
- I needed it to be simple to use
- I wanted it to be automatic
- I wanted it to work on both my Mac and my PC
- I wanted it to be reasonably priced
Discovering a simple and easy solution
As luck would have it, I was reading someone’s blog where they described the same frustration that I’d had wasting time editing the old document. I knew exactly how they felt so I was curious to read more and see if they found a solution, and they did.
They found a cool little application that did exactly what I wanted.
It had worked for them, so I decided to try it myself. There was a no cost version, so I installed that to see how it would work.
I created an account, installed it on both of my computers, told it what folders to keep synchronized and watched it go to work. In just a few minutes, it was ready to go.
I tested it by editing a file on one computer and then going to my other computer to take a look at it. Just like magic, all the changes were there on the other computer!
I’ve used it every day for over a week now, and it has performed flawlessly.
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