I think you set it up with a piece of removable media and then you could press the sync button when it was present to take the newest file from either the removable media or the local disk. I also vaguely remember a conflict resolution screen where if both copies had changed you could keep one, the other or both. I'm trying to remember if you could have a 3-point sync where you used the removable media as a way of keeping the briefcase on your home and work computers in sync, but I never used that feature if it did exist.

So yeah, It didn't do much more than just dragging and dropping (as I think the OS dialog had similar conflict resolution at least from windows 98ish) but the two way aspect was pretty useful.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep - it kept files in sync.

I never used it, though I always thought it was useful idea. Not sure how problematic it could be how did it handle collisions?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It handled collisions very very poorly.

I used it for a while, but gave up after it shit its pants when a file had been independently modified on the two systems.