GoodSync
GoodSync syncs files between your computer, mobile devices, FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3, Google Drive, OneDrive, WebDAV, Azure.
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Backup & Sync • Security & PrivacyPlatform details
Windows: 29.95 € or free version for private use with max.100 files per synchronisation
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- windows-mobile-sync
- sync-auto-file-deletion
- webdav-sync
- file-backup
- sync-3folders
- wm-sync
After some weeks it locks itself and ask you to buy it.
Commercial with trial time.
Free version limit: 100 Files, 3 Jobs
100 files is nothing.
Pretty good software. I purchased v9 and v10 because I really liked it.
However, v11 has been released recently and when I went to look at the price to upgrade, I saw it got bumped a little, but it's not what bothered me.
Before v11, if you purchased any version, you had all the minor updates and only had to pay to upgrade to the next major version.
With v11, the license is now annual, so you have to pay per year. I know many people would be ok with such a change but I really don't like this shift to annual licenses and rented software.
I'm considering alternatives now.
[Edited by eroar, April 29]
I was using Goodsync since v8. The recent change in v11 pretty much make me to look for new alternative. V11 had changed to annual subscription, meaning that you will have to pay yearly. I will stay at v10 and then move to new alternative when I find the right choice.
Not unless they change back to a perceptual license on major version, not going back anymore.
Reply written 7 months ago
For what it does, GoodSync is pretty darn good. However, there are some potentially major caveats regarding the portable version, GoodSync2Go (GS2G).
Firstly, the installer insists on installing GS2G into \GoodSync - you can change which drive it's installed to, but it has to be in a \GoodSync folder (i.e. in the root of the drive). :-/
Secondly, for those of you who have moved beyond using USB drives for portable apps on multiple computers to using something like Dropbox, it's problematic. To bypass the installation folder restriction, you can set up a symlink from \GoodSync to somewhere in your Dropbox folder. However, every time you switch from one computer to another, GS2G will see itself as unactivated, and will prompt you to activate it.
I contacted GoodSync support about this constant need to re-activate the program, and they informed me that the repeated prompts to activate it were because GS2G links the activation to a drive ID of some sort, and that the way I was using it (in Dropbox vs a USB drive) is actually against the license agreement. When I confronted them about the ridiculous restriction they have on their "portable" app, they were not willing to listen.
tl;dr: The portable version can only be used on a single USB drive, not installed in Dropbox or other cloud synchronization solutions. :(
[Edited by Sandwich, July 12] As a follow-up, GoodSync2Go now refuses to activate any longer from my Dropbox, saying I've activated it on "more USB Disks than is allowed by the license that [I] purchased." DO NOT PURCHASE if you're expecting to get the standard portable app behavior. Use WinSCP instead for true portable directory synchronization.
There is a serious bug where it creates a corrupt copy on the other side when connection gets disrupted while copying. If you had the hash check option and level 3 logging, it will log it as hash not matching after copy, but IT WILL NOT MARK THE FILE ITSELF AS ERRORED IN THE SYNC TASK PANEL, MAKING THE PROBLEM ACCUMULATE OVER TIME UNDETECTED.
I was using Goodsync since v8. The recent change in v11 pretty much make me to look for new alternative. V11 had changed to annual subscription, meaning that you will have to pay yearly. I will stay at v10 and then move to new alternative when I find the right choice.
Not unless they change back to a perceptual license on major version, not going back anymore.