I would love to love Chronosync 4, but the day I installed it was the day countless problems have sprung up on all my machines. Econ lists the insane permutations it runs to determine whether a backup should take place, but in the end, I can't spend ten minutes watching a beachball turn. If I disable everything except file modification date, it still runs forever and forever. The interface went from intutive to counter (folders containing files that are going to be altered show a "--->", but only if the files to be changed are within that immediate folder! if they're in a sub-folder, there's no indicator).

The permissions issues that arrived with Mac OS X 10.5.6 have turned Chronosync into a dangerous user folder wrecker. If I sync two desktops together (and I couldn't decipher how to tell Chronosync not to sync surrounding folders), when I go on the other Mac, I can't write a Word document and save it to the desktop! I don't have "correct access permissions" to save my own file. The nightmare goes on from there, and I've even had to re-install the Mac OS twice to try and get around this mess.

Sadly, I'm abandoning ship and moving on... but where to? At present, it looks like Carbon
Copy Cloner is my best bet.