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Questions about syncing with various protocols and services, as well as between devices: Examples include Ubuntu One, Contacts/Calendar/Mail syncing, and Dropbox for software, and between devices, syncing between Android and iOS are prime examples.

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Two way synch from Desktop to (ReadyNas) network drive

I am trying to make my documents folder synchronise with my ReadyNas network drive. Currently, I am already synchronising my Windows Laptop's Documents folder with the network drive on my ReadyNas via ...
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Nextcloud : Changes In Synchronized Folders Not Being Tracked Reliably

I use nextcloud-desktop (version 3.3.6) from ppa:nextcloud-devs/client repositories on Ubuntu 20.04. Every time I start the software, the notification about “Changes In Synchronized Folders Not Being ...
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How to know that the chrony works well to synchronize timestamps on two computers?

I used the chrony to synchronize timestamps on two computers. The robot's computer is a master and the workstation's computer is a client. All I did, I follow the question's answer here after ...
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How to transfer opened pages in filrefox?

I have recently been forced to reinstall Ubuntu due to my ssd card problem. I had opened several pages in firefox and I want to know how it is possible to transfer those pages to newly installed ...
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Chrome Sync Now Impossible with i386

Am I right thinking that there is no workaround to enable Chrome to Sync on an i386 machine? Access to the API has been withdrawn from Chromium, and no earlier i386 version of Chrome will have access ...
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Isolated NTP Server for use in switchgear testing

I need to set up an NTP server to test the NTP functionality of some power meters (PXM2000), gateways (PXG900), and MOXAS in a switchgear application. For my application I do not care about precise ...
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Backups utility started requesting password again while syncing and not sure if sync is completing or not

Ubuntu 18.4 Bit of a fuzzy post here. About a week ago I set up the backups Utility that ships with Ubuntu with my cloud provider. Everything was going fine, I set it to daily and each day the utility ...
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Cannot log in to Firefox account due to "NetworkError"

Noticed that my Sync hasn't been working for many days. I logged out and noticed that I cannot log in to Firefox account/sync on my Ubuntu 18.04 machine. It doesn't even ask my password, just aborts ...
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Real Time File Sync - Mirroring Locally

I need to sync a number of files in one folder to other folder on the same machine (no sub folders involved). I have tried hard linking i.e. ln dir1 dir2 but it is not sync'ing/replicating. ...
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Does a mounted external NTFS drive (USB) need to be manually synced?

To be clear, the terminology of "synced" that I'm using here might be incorrect. I'm talking about the flushing through of the [write] cache. I am dding a local drive image to a file on my ...
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How to make rsync delete files in the destination folder that has been deleted in the source with shell glob?

I'm trying to collect files periodically from multiple sources into a single file dest. To save copies I tried using rsync but I have a bit of a trouble. Let's say I want to copy some files from ...
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How to get Sycthing GUI and register if missed it

I am a new Ubuntu user so I'm little bit lost. I installed Syncthing by following these steps: https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-and-use-syncthing-on-ubuntu-18-04/ I still only manages to ...
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Pause Dropbox after sync

Is is possible to automatically pause dropbox after sync? I am thinking, every time I start my computer, dropbox is also starting. But, is it possible to get Dropbox to pause or close directly after ...
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synchronize clocks on multiple 1804 linux mini computers without internet

I have a mobile platform that contains more than 1 ubuntu 1804 linux computer on it. All of these computers are connected to a router hosting a local ethernet network. All of the computers need to set ...
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Can Microsoft OneNote be executed on Ubuntu?

I don't have an Ubuntu machine available now and this question is not very much on a problem to solve but is kind of a follow up to a question I have asked on Software Recommendations SE by which I ...
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How to create a personal failover laptop?

This question sounds a tad vague but I'll lay it out rather clearly with some requirements: Each laptop should contain the same files in the home folder. User accounts should be identical. ...
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iTunes to synchronize ipod shuffle

I am a beginner of ubuntu 18.04 and I would like to synchronize music from my pc to my iPod shuffle Is there an alternative to iTunes via wine to transfer music-files pc to the ipod? I tested the ...
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How to automatically sync files between local folder and Dropbox folder?

I'm trying to set up a sort of DIY cloud-saves system for a game on Ubuntu so that I could share saves for a game between 2 systems, using Dropbox. The intended result is for the saves to ...
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Ubuntu Server - Synchronize Dropbox with no logged user

Intalled dropbox from https://www.dropbox.com/en/install-linux and downloaded the Python script. Then configured my account and it works ok. My goal is to have dropbox uploading new files created on ...
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Thunderbird Lightning - Google Calendar : Synchronization issues

Ubuntu 18.04.2 - 64bit, Thunderbird 60.9.0, Lightning calendar 6.2.9, Provider for Google Calendar 4.4.2, When adding a event in calendar using Google it appears in Lightning after hitting the ...
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Where is the dropox icon hiding?

Dropbox is running, and syncing, but it is complaining that I need to move the sync location. I set up a suitable folder but I have to get my little mouse arrow on the tray icon to tell dropbox where ...
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Equivalent of `/etc/init/` folder for non admin users?

We have a cluster where I run some simulations. I want automatically sync the results between multiple computers so I decided to use syncthing. I'm trying to follow this tutorial setting up syncthing ...
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Is using Home Cloud storage device providing synchronization/ application in Ubuntu

I am thinking to synchronize my files in a folder in ubuntu, and I am not sure whether to by WD MY CLOUD HOME or not?! So I would like to ask from experienced and experts that what do you suggest? ...
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Stop NTP Synchronization

I need to permanently sync my servers NTP with that of Amazon's AWS servers so my request to their servers don't go Awry. i've been able to (temporarily) do so by making the following edits to my ntp....
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How can I manage continuous bidirectional folder sync, *a la* Dropbox app?

I have a folder on my laptop (Ubuntu Mate 16.04.3 LTS), and one on my desktop machine (Kubuntu 14.04.5 LTS), that I wish to sync, and because the laptop may be on any of several wifi connections (home,...
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How to sync changed files only with Dropbox using dropbox-uploader.sh?

How to sync changed files only with Dropbox using dropbox-uploader.sh? Hello, I want to know how to sync changed files on my local machine using dropbox-uploader.sh by Andrea Fabrizi. Let's say I ...
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Trying to sync Exchange WebDAV calendar

My wife and I each have work calendars with Outlook / Microsoft exchange. My plan was to have these sync with some calendar on my Ubuntu Server so that they both could be accessed on our phones, ...
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Remote Synchronisation instead of doing a backup

I do not have a lot of experience with Ubuntu. I would like to make a backup of my old computer to put it on my new computer. The problem is that I do not have an external disk. Is it possible to do ...
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NTP service does not seen in ps aux

On a linux based system I install ntp service to sync the date/time and I do not see a sync. I check if the service was running with "systemctl status ntp" and then "ps aux" systemctl status ntp ● ...
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Firefox won't sync after upgrade to 17.04

Having upgraded mu Dell Inspiron Mini 10 PP19S with Ubuntu 17.04, I can no longer sync Firefox (54.0 32bit). When I try to sign in to sync it loads a blank page. My desktop also has Ubuntu 17.04 with ...
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Unable to sync Kontact with Google Contacts with Kubuntu 17.04

akonadi-kde-resource-googledata seems to be unable to sync. I'm looking for a way to sync Kontact with Google Contacts. I was able to do it on previous releases. Akonadi is working. I'm looking for ...
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How to access laptop directories on desktop?

I'm currently facing the following problem: I have a desktop computer at home and a laptop that I use for school and work projects in the field. Usually, many small files are created on my laptop ...
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Sync Thunderbird tasks and calendar between two Ubuntu 16.04 computers without cloud?

Is there a way to synchronise Thunderbird tasks and calendars between two Ubuntu 16.04 computers without cloud? Ideally, automated would be nice. As of now, what I do currently is just export tasks ...
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How do I compress, encrypt and transfer (sync) files to a remote server?

So far I have used rar to compress and encrypt files, then sent them via SFTP. Mostly for archiving purposes, like family photos and such. Photos are in monthly folders. Nothing super secret but not ...
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Syncing directorys between two Ubuntu 16.04 LTS servers across WAN VPN

I have an Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS server on the West coast. We just purchased another one for the East coast. We have a persistent VPN tunnel between the two sites. What would be the best way to get two ...
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How can I sync a list of indivdual files?

Given that I normally use Unison, what's the best way to sync a list of individual files? Ideas I've had are: Use rsync (Yuck! Pretty messy and complex compared to Unison.) Create a subdirectory ...
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NTP Synchronization issue & it turned off automatically

Due to Time Synchronization Issue, We manually tried to sync the time by, sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org It works. But instead of running this command everytime maually, I setup NTP by installing sudo ...
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Mutual syncronization of x folders

I am looking for a solution as to how I can synchronize an undefined amount of folders on my server. At the moment I have 3 folders, but it may increase in the future. Any of the folders can have ...
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ubuntuphone does not sync radicale calendar anymore since OTA-13

I've created a custom script to sync my radicale calendars with my phone that I launch manually in the terminal. It was working fine till the last system upgrade OTA-13. Now it fails with the ...
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Sync Desktop with online account?

I am using Ubuntu 16.04, Is there a way to keep my desktop synced with an online account (like Dropbox or google drive) so any file I create/edit on my desktop gets updated automatically to the online ...
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Is there a way to sync music on my iphone?

I been trying to use Banshee to sync my Iphone 4 but it doesn't appear to work is there any other way to sync music to my iphone ?
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Sync ubuntu settings between systems with shell script?

I am writing a simple shell script to automatically sync packages & their configuration between several systems. However, I couldn't find a way to sync system settings. For example: System ...
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Grive2 automatically sync (on logout)

So I found that grive2 can be used to synchronize my google drive files. I also found a nice way to automatically sync google drive when I login to Ubuntu (16.04) desktop: Startup Application ...
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Partially moving samba user to the new server

There are many questions like this one and many other good links, one of these link is: Link1 But this answer is useful too: This I must not move all of the users from the old to the new, only some ...
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syncevolution d-bus error syncing ubuntu phone via carddav

To sync the contacts of my ubuntu-phone witch my ownCloud server I set up a syncevolution configuration and started 1st time syncing: syncevolution --sync slow owncloud contacts As a result I get ...
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How can I synchronize my user settings between my desktop and my live USB?

I've got a persistent-storage live USB (with a separate casper-rw partition), with Xubuntu 14.04 on it. I've got the same OS on my desktop, and I'd like to be able to synchronize my settings between ...
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Suggestion needed on updating software available on Ubuntu 14.04 LTE

Currently I am syncing repo on my laptop running on Ubuntu 14.04 LTE. I got a message that software updates are available amounting to around 340 MB. Should I update now, while the repo syncing ...
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Smart playlist changes to normal playlist in banshee while syncing to ipod nano.

When I sync my ipod from banshee, the smart playlist becomes normal playlist in my ipod. Also I can only sync one playlist.
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Upgrade BitTorrent Sync

I just received a notification for BitTorrent Sync 2.0 to upgrade. It takes me to a downloads page on the website, and I pulled down the appropriate package for my architecture (x64), kinda lost as to ...
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How do I get Bittorrent Sync to run automatically after a reboot?

I have to enter ./btsync in the terminal every time I reboot. Then I have to open a browser and enter my username and password, kind of a pita. Do have to make or edit an init file? Yes I am new to ...
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