Looking for a smart sync tool that exactly copies the structure of the source to that of the destination

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Published on 2012-09-27T15:03:34Z Indexed on 2012/09/27 15:40 UTC
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I am a Windows 7 user and looking for a sync tool that exactly copies the structure of the source to that of the destination.

The scenario is as follows:

  • I have a laptop in which I save my daily projects. I always bring this laptop wherever I go to work, either at my school or at my house.
  • At school I have a room in which I put an external hard drive to backup my laptop data. Upon arriving at school I always sync the external data with my laptop. Before leaving the school, I also do the synchronization if I make some modification in my laptop data.
  • I do the same thing when I arrive and leave my house.
  • Every month I reformat my laptop because of some trial softwares.

I am using SyncToy 2.1 to sync the external drives with my laptop. The problem is as follows.

Before formatting my laptop, I sync all external drives with my laptop. For example,

My laptop structure:

c:\data\file1.ext
c:\data\folder1\file2.ext

Both external drive structure:

d:\data\file1.ext
d:\data\folder1\file2.ext

After reformatting my laptop, I move the file1.ext to folder1. So my laptop structure becomes,

c:\data\folder1\file1.ext
c:\data\folder1\file2.ext

If I sync external drives with my laptop, I get

d:\data\file1.ext
d:\data\folder1\file1.ext
d:\data\folder1\file2.ext

I want the tool also remove d:\data\file1.ext. How to do this?

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