HI GSV3MiaC,
It seems NOT a Synctoy bug, sync issue happened due to duplicate name conflict in Vista Documents folder.
Because of Vista using new path for folders: My document, music, pictures and video, for improve user experience, Vista created 3 shortcuts in Documents folder by default, they are named My Music, My Pictures and My Videos, and point to the new location.
Usually, the 3 shortcuts were hidden files, open Vista Documents folder, press ALT+T, click folder options ->view-> select “show hidden files and folders”-> click Ok, and you will found them.
It’s no problem that copies all files in My Document from XP to Vista(Documents folder), shortcut will make a redirection and let your music, pictures and videos files copy into the new location. But Synctoy can NOT recognize them, try to overwrite but raise a ACCESS DENIED error during sync.
How to work around this problem?
If you want to sync alls in My document folder form XP to Vista(Documents folder) via Synctoy, please follow steps as below:
1. First you need to understand folder path is difference between XP and vista, the correct folder mapping from XP to Vista is:
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Folder name
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XP OS
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Vista OS
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My document
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C:\documents and settings\<your user account name>\My Documents
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C:\Users\<your user account name>\Documents
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My pictures
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C:\documents and settings\<your user account name>\My Documents\My Pictures
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C:\Users\<your user account name>\Pictures
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My music
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C:\documents and settings\<your user account name>\My Documents\My Music
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C:\Users\<your user account name>\Music
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My video
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C:\documents and settings\<your user account name>\My Documents\My Video
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C:\Users\<your user account name>\Videos
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2. Share out My Document folder on XP for sync purpose
3. Open Synctoy, Create a new folder Pair for My document sync only
a. Sync folders setting follow above mapping table, such as left= \\XpMachine\ <your user account name>\My Documents, right= C:\Users\<your user account name>\Documents
b. Select Echo or other
c. Folder pair named “My document” in order to distinction
d. Click “Change Options” in panel, and click “Select subfolder”, unselect “My pictures, My music and My video” in Left Folder, Click OK.[VERY IMPORTANT]
e. Select “Exclude hidden files” if you don’t want overwrite system file “desktop.ini” during sync, click Ok to finish setting.
4. Create a new folder Pair for My pictures sync only
a. Sync folders setting follow above mapping table, such as left= \\XpMachine\ <your user account name>\My Documents\My Pictures, right= C:\Users\<your user account name>\Pictures
b. folder pair named “My pictures”
c. Click Ok to finish setting.
5. Create a new folder Pair for My music sync only
a. Same setting as steps 4.
6. Create a new folder Pair for My videos sync only
a. Same setting as steps 4.
7. Select “All Folder pairs”, click run button, all files will be sync successful.
Any problem will let me know, thanks.
Joey Liang
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