I've written similar tools in spare time at work, but got tired of
maintaining/resurrecting them. So I tried SyncToy. Was pretty easy to use,
also easy to discover problems with it - just created 2 new folders, folder A
and folder B. Created a sub-folder and files in one - synctoy copied to the
other no problem. Then renamed the sub-folder on both & sunk. One parent
folder now has both sub-folders, the other just has one. I've got it set to
'sync' mode so this behavior doesn't seem correct. I keep running it but it
doesn't pick up the difference. Sub folders are included in the operation.

Some new toy - broken in 5 minutes!

> I've written similar tools in spare time at work, but got tired of
> maintaining/resurrecting them. So I tried SyncToy. Was pretty easy to
> use,
> also easy to discover problems with it - just created 2 new folders,
> folder A
> and folder B. Created a sub-folder and files in one - synctoy copied to
> the
> other no problem. Then renamed the sub-folder on both & sunk. One parent
> folder now has both sub-folders, the other just has one. I've got it set
> to
> 'sync' mode so this behavior doesn't seem correct. I keep running it but
> it
> doesn't pick up the difference. Sub folders are included in the
> operation.
>
> Some new toy - broken in 5 minutes!

Flashy and pretty, but ultimately can't do the basic things it's supposed to
do. I've been pointed to robocopy.exe from the Win2K3 resource kit, and I
haven't looked back. I cannot in good faith recommend SyncToy to anyone.