On some Windows systems, USB devices (USB sticks, USB hard disks or whatever) like to change their drive letter. It’s their idea of having fun. Plug it in and it’s E:\\, take it out, plug it in again and it’s F:\\. Great. How can you synchronize your files with such a chameleon? Any path that you enter is bound to be wrong, sooner or later. So how can you synchronize with it?<\/p>\n
Well, you can, with Easy2Sync.<\/p>\n
First, make sure that the device has a unique name. You can edit that it its properties, if necessary.<\/p>\n
At the task, where you’d normally enter the drive letter, you can enter the drive name, along with some special markers:<\/p>\n
In General: %DRIVELETTER:MyDriveName%:\\<\/p>\n
The percent signs, the colon and the word “DRIVERLETTER” are pre-defined markers. You only have to fill in the name of your USB drive. If your USB stick had the name “MyUsbStick”:
\n%DRIVELETTER:MyUsbStick%:\\<\/p>\n
Or if you want to synchronize with a subdirectory:
\n%DRIVELETTER:MyUsbStick%:\\MySubdirectory\\<\/p>\n
Try it:<\/p>\n