Briefcase Dialog. Mar 23, Bug report: Restoring minimized window loses focus on the file pan. Jul 18, Properties for multiple files. Jun 16, Vista Start Menu Options. Jan 22, Keeping Focus on a file while changing Views. Mar 6, Open multiple. Jul 11, Creating Folder Button. Back then, the most common way of using Briefcase was via a floppy disk. In this scenario, you'd drag and drop the files that you wanted to keep synchronized onto the Briefcase icon. You'd then drag and drop the Briefcase icon onto the floppy disk icon in My Computer.
You could then take the floppy disk to another computer and then edit the files in the Briefcase folder on the floppy disk.
When you later brought the floppy disk back to the original source computer, you'd double-click the Briefcase icon on the desktop and select the Update All command and Briefcase would synchronize the copies on the floppy disk with original files. Of course, by this time networks were more common and Offline Files was designed to use Ethernet rather than a floppy disk as the medium for synchronization.
Within the last year, August to be exact, Microsoft released a much more powerful synchronization tool called SyncToy. The nicest thing about SyncToy is that while it offers all kinds of sophisticated methods of synchronizing files, its user interface is extremely clean, making this tool very easy to use.
Centralized synchronization Building on all their past synchronization efforts, while recognizing the plethora of external devices that can now be connected to a computer for the purposes of synchronizing data, Microsoft developed Sync Center for Windows Vista. Sync Center isn't really a synchronization application per se, but it is designed to work hand in hand with the synchronization applications that come with various devices.
Because of that, you'll still install the native synchronization application that comes with your device. When you do, Sync Center will establish a behind-the-scenes working relationship with the application to allow you to initiate synchronization operations from within the Sync Center interface.
In addition, Sync Center will provide an iconic representation of the device, display a progress bar, report on the results, and alert you to any conflicts that may arise. Using Windows Vista's Offline Files interface, I set up a connection to a folder on another computer.
Digg this Thread! Bookmark in Technorati. Furl this Thread! How to Verify the Security of File Downloads with Blocking obtrusive emojs. How to force pasting to be consistently only one How Do I getg the Max Speed from my internet? Wireless Network Question. Bios time not updated. Best Lotus Notes Conversion Tool. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. McAfee Labs Stinger. If you edited the copy of the files in the briefcase, you could then synchronize them back to the original location.
Or, if you had copies of some files in the briefcase and the files were updated at the original location, you could synchronize the Briefcase, updating the briefcase copies to match the originals. For example, if you had a laptop, you could keep the briefcase anywhere on your laptop. If you had a desktop PC, you could place the briefcase on a floppy disk and take that floppy disk home with you.
Now, you could disconnect your laptop from the network or remove the floppy disk and take it to another PC. The briefcase on the laptop or floppy disk contained copies of whatever files you put into the briefcase. You could view them offline and even make changes. You just opened the briefcase and then opened the files inside. Windows treated briefcases like practically any other folder.
You could open a file directly from the briefcase and save it directly to the briefcase. Any changes would be synchronized. So, while you were away from your workplace, the idea was to only work with the files stored in the briefcase and not drag them out of the briefcase or try to sync them elsewhere. The Windows Briefcase was great when it was introduced in Windows 95, but it became less and less important as time went on.
The Windows Briefcase was disabled in the original release of Windows 10, and could only be enabled with a hidden registry setting. It was removed completely with the release of the Creators Update.
Ultimately, the Briefcase became much less important thanks to the Internet. Like the Windows Briefcase, these services synchronize copies of your files between your computers.
Unlike a briefcase, these services let you synchronize files to multiple different computers. All the synchronizing happens automatically, too. The Windows Briefcase is now old-fashioned. Browse All iPhone Articles
0コメント