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If I use Carbonite to access a document from my PC on my laptop and I make changes to that document on the laptop, will those changes be transferred to my PC?
October 12th, 2010 - Posted by Kent
The following is an actual user-submitted question:
Q: If I subscribe to Carbonite and back up my PC, if I understand correctly, I will be able to access my files from my laptop. Is that correct? If I use Carbonite to access a document from my PC on my laptop and I make changes to that document on the laptop, will those changes be transferred to my PC?
A: Yes, you can use your laptop to access files on your desktop with Carbonite. However, because a Carbonite subscription is only meant for one PC, the remote access is really meant just to access those files, not keep them synced. Of course, you can make changes to any document that you download and then send it via email back to your desktop (you can also buy a subscription for both of your computers and share files that way, but it's still not quite syncing). If you're primarily looking to sync files between multiple computers, the product you want is SugarSync. In fact, its specialty is keeping computers in sync in real time.
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