Wow, these are all great suggestions, thanks, everyone!!

Matthew


"Toni" <devegades@gmail.es> wrote in message news:g29q7u$s58$1@aioe.org...
> En/na Matthew ha escrit:
>>
>> I have one staff member who travels a lot, and she has historically
>> manually copied her entire (2GB) User directory to her (XP) laptop before
>> travelling.
>>
>> Over a few years, this resulted in about five different versions of her
>> directory, a situation I want to prevent from happening again.
>>
>> So I looked into enabling offline files, ...
>>
>> Is there a better solution?
>
> Yes, use Portable Unison <http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=979>. Not
> easy to setup unless you know how to manually edit config files but will
> do the job nicely and flawlessly. RTFM, it is intuitive for the user but
> not for the administrator.
>
> It will also allow her to see when she has double-modified a file and
> decide which version to keep (or both).
>
> --
> Toni