Synchronizing two computers

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I built a new computer a few months ago and set it up with Windows 7

as the OS. I still have my old computer with Windows XP Pro, SP3 on

it. The old computer has my old accounting and tax records under MS

Money and H&R Block Tax Prep, and all my personal stuff like image

files, Word documents, etc., on it.



The new computer has Intel Quicken and Turbo Tax. I have imported my

accounting files into Quicken on the new computer but have kept a

parallel set of these records going on my old computer...just in case

something went kaput. I kept the old computer alive and active until I

finished this year's tax returns, and now I would like to synchronize

the files on both computers, then quietly put the old computer to

death.



What is the best way to accomplish this? I have them both connected by

CAT 5 cables to my Actiontec WI-FI that provides interconnection to my

two desktop, my laptop and my wife's desktop computers. Is there a

free or reasonably priced software that would let me synchronize the

files on both of my desktop computers without overwriting and messing

up any existing files?



I guess the first thing I need to do is get both computers set up so

they can swap/share files, but I'm not sure how to go about doing

this.



Thanks, Gordon
 
microsoft's sync toy

is pretty good at

synchronizing user

files.





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"Antares 531" wrote in message news:pl44r5tmsarv8l7n6q692k22jrlstfaj03@4ax.com...

> I built a new computer a few months ago and set it up with Windows 7

> as the OS. I still have my old computer with Windows XP Pro, SP3 on

> it. The old computer has my old accounting and tax records under MS

> Money and H&R Block Tax Prep, and all my personal stuff like image

> files, Word documents, etc., on it.

>

> The new computer has Intel Quicken and Turbo Tax. I have imported my

> accounting files into Quicken on the new computer but have kept a

> parallel set of these records going on my old computer...just in case

> something went kaput. I kept the old computer alive and active until I

> finished this year's tax returns, and now I would like to synchronize

> the files on both computers, then quietly put the old computer to

> death.

>

> What is the best way to accomplish this? I have them both connected by

> CAT 5 cables to my Actiontec WI-FI that provides interconnection to my

> two desktop, my laptop and my wife's desktop computers. Is there a

> free or reasonably priced software that would let me synchronize the

> files on both of my desktop computers without overwriting and messing

> up any existing files?

>

> I guess the first thing I need to do is get both computers set up so

> they can swap/share files, but I'm not sure how to go about doing

> this.

>

> Thanks, Gordon
 
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