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Syncany For Mac

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Makes it possible for you to backup your files and folders, synchronize them, as well as quickly share them with your friends or co-workers. #Synchronize files  #Backup folder  #Cloud storage  #Synchronizer  #Backup  #Storage  

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Aimed not at the average cloud users but rather towards more privacy orientated ones, Syncany is an open source and efficient application that makes it possible for you to synchronize and backup your files and folders.

In some respects, Syncany can be viewed in a similar fashion as the more popular Dropbox service, but some difference still exist, like the fact that it doesn’t provide storage support, therefore, you have to bring your own.

This said, thanks to Syncany’s automatic file synchronization system and the fact that if enables you to use your own storage solution such as FTP, S3, WebDAV, NFS, and SAMBA/Windows among others, Syncany basically makes it possible for you to define one or more folders on your Mac and keep them synchronized with other users.

Not only this, but Syncany comes with a few smart and useful features that you will like: your files are instantly encrypted before they are uploaded thanks to a 128-bit AES + Twofish/GCM encryption system, duplicate files are automatically removed locally, and all the uploaded files are versioned.

Once Syncany is installed on your Mac, you can start backing up and synchronizing files with your friends or co-workers by creating a new repository. Before you do that, you should figure out if your want to use the storage space for Syncany from your local Mac’s hard-drive or from existing cloud services like Dropbox.

A good thing is the fact that from its Preferences menu, Syncany enables you to effortlessly install and take advantage of plugins for Dropbox, Flickr, FTP, Local, RAID0, Amazon S3, Samba, SFTP, OpenStack Swift, or WebDav.

With its fairly complicated philosophy, Syncany is not what you would call the most user-friendly sync and backup app out there, but instead, it was built around a strong security orientation and bundles interesting features like version control and auto-duplicate-deletion.

What's new in Syncany 0.4.9 Alpha:

  • Bug fixes and other things:
  • Fixed bug with sy restore #534/#535
  • Fix .syignore recursive behavior #555/#544
  • Fixed crictical bug preventing functioning with newer JVM #595/#596/#597
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Syncany 0.4.9 Alpha

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  runs on:
Mac OS X (Intel only)
  file size:
17.9 MB
  filename:
latest-x86_64.app.zip
  9 screenshots:
Syncany - In order to get started with Syncany, you only have to click its status bar item, and select the "Add folder" optionSyncany - The application enables you to create a new online storage, connect to an existing online storage, or add an already existing Syncany folderSyncany - One step within the setup process implies that you initialize a new Syncany repository and connect a local folderSyncany - screenshot #4Syncany - screenshot #5Syncany - screenshot #6Syncany - screenshot #7Syncany - screenshot #8Syncany - screenshot #9
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