Synctoy command line switches

We can create and synchronize folder pairs from windows command line using Synctoy.You can find syntax below.

Creating a folder pair for synchronization from windows command line

The command to create a new folder pair is

Synctoy -d(left=<left_folder_path>, right=<right_folder_path>, name=<folder_pair_name>, operation={synchronize,echo,contribute})

(The arguments user need to provide are enclosed in braces.)

We can also supply other parameters specifying if we want to exclude files of any type etc..but the above one is the basic command to create a new folder pair.

Example to create synchronization between the folders f:folder1 and f:folder2 we can run the below command.

C:Program FilesSyncToy 2.0>SyncToy.exe  -d(left=f:folder1,right=f:folder2,name=pair,operation=synchronize)

Note that there should not be any space after ‘,’ in the curly braces. Otherwise you would get syntax error.

Synchronizing folder pair from command line

When we install Synctoy  we also get Synctoycmd.exe which can be used to invoke synchronization of folder pairs from command prompt.  You can find  SyncToyCmd.exe in the synctoy installation folder. (Usually it will be in C:Program FilesSyncToy 2.0 )

To run synchronization for a folder pair we need to run the below command:

SyncToyCmd -R folder_pair_name

Example: To do synchronization for folder pair named pair1, we need to run the below command.

SyncToyCmd -R pair1

Below is the command to run synchronization for all folder pairs:

SyncToyCmd -R