Hello Jack, Friday, February 7, 2014, 9:01:25 AM, you wrote:
JSL> Hello Achdut18, JSL> On Friday, February 07, 2014 you wrote: * * * A>> Before setting up The Bat on the second laptop, can someone A>> explain to me how I can set up The Bat on our little home network so A>> that any folder or rule created on one laptop, will be seen on the A>> other laptop? And, I need to use the desktop as the "server", so that A>> when either laptop is offsite, the other laptop will still have access A>> to the mail. A>> This scheme is designed to mimic IMAP without using IMAP. * * * JSL> I present this (possible) "solution" merely as a member of this august JSL> group trying to help a fellow member. I have no idea if it would JSL> actually work. * * * JSL> I found a FREE program JSL> called WUALA (as in voila) found at: http://www.wuala.com/. I have it JSL> set to start anytime either machine is re-booted so that it is always JSL> running on both machines. So far it has worked beautifully. Any JSL> changes made to the password database on either machine appear within JSL> a minute on the other machine. * * * JSL> My suggestion then is to download WUALA, install it on both (all) of JSL> your computers and do what I did only have it sync the entire TB! JSL> folder on both (all) of your machines. Admittedly I have not done JSL> this with TB! as my wife and I have separate email accounts so it was JSL> never necessary. My only concern is that I have a sneaking suspicion JSL> that TB! stores things in locations other than the TheBat folder in JSL> PROGRAM FILES (x86). Those locations of course could also be synced JSL> by WUALA in addition to the TB! folder in PROGRAM FILES (x86). Jack, thank you very much! I don't know if this will work, but is certainly worth a try. Does this only work if both machines are running on the same network, or, do they just need to be able to access the Internet? -- Avi Avram Sacks, using The Bat! ver. 5.8.2 on WinXP sp3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 6.1.8 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
