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Synchronize directories with Komparator and KDiff3
f you work some of the time on your laptop and some of the time on your desktop box, making sure that your work is updated on both machines is a must. Many tools can help you accomplish this, from command-line tools such as scp and rsync to generic graphical applications like Konqueror or Krusader, to more specific tools like Unison. Komparator and KDiff3, a couple of KDE applications with interesting features, may offer better ways of syncing your work.Komparator can search and synchronize any two directories. It uses KIO slaves, which lets you compare not only standard directories, but also protocol-based pseudofolders such as smb:// (Samba folders), ssh:// and ftp:// (remote directories via SSH and FTP), and fonts:// (local fonts). Its latest version is 0.8, dated from October 2007, and it's available under the GPLv2. ..
KDiff3 provides more functions than Komparator, but not all are relevant to synchronization. Working with directories, KDiff3 goes further than Komparator -- it can compare as many as three directories at the same time (instead of two), simulate the merge operations, do the synchronization in a more "hands-off" way, and even produce backups. More importantly, it can also help you compare specific files (think source files, if you're a programmer) by highlighting their differences, then merging them. In KDiff3, a merge need not be simply one file overwriting another. If you've ever modified a file on one machine and then carelessly made another change to a copy of the file on a different machine, common merging procedures would opt for one of the files, making you lose the changes on the other one. With KDiff3, you could get to keep both changes.
I'm not vouching for either of these as I have not tried them for this purpose, but it looks worthy of consideration.
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