I've recently got Windows 7. I went to sync all my pictures onto my backup harddrive, but found that briefcases are gone! As old and impractical as they were, they were perfect for just backing up pictures. They did all the hard work for me, albeit somewhat slow.
So I had a google, and found Windows had a new thing called Sync Toy. I loaded it up, started the sync and was told it was going to take a few hours. I left it going, but at some point I lost power and the sync didn't finish. Thinking it was like the briefcase, I went back later and just started it again. I figured it would just finish off.
But alas, no. It thought that since half the files weren't in the folder, that they'd been deleted. So Sync Toy went and deleted the original files that were never backed up!
I was lucky enough to have another backup on my recently abandoned computer, so I hardly lost anything. But I'm never using it again. From now on, purely going to Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v
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