Profiles, plans, schedules and archives, step by step.
Open the disk image you downloaded and drag AEShot Sync to the Applications folder.
Run the installer you downloaded. It installs AEShot Sync for your account, without administrator rights, and adds it to the Start menu.
Choose the package for your Linux under Download on the AEShot Sync page and install it with the command shown there.
If Edge or Windows warns because the installer isn’t code-signed yet, here is what to do.
AEShot Sync opens with an empty list. Click New Profile to set up your first pair of folders.
AEShot Sync opens with an empty list. Click New profile to set up your first pair of folders.
AEShot Sync needs no special permissions: it may use a folder once you choose it. macOS asks once whether it may send notifications, when you first save a profile with a schedule.
AEShot Sync needs no special permissions. It uses the folders you choose for a profile.
AEShot Sync has a window and an icon in the menu bar. The icon’s menu shows what is happening and runs Analyze and Synchronize. Closing the window quits the app, unless you turn on Keep running in the menu bar when the window is closed in Settings.
AEShot Sync has a window and an icon in the notification area. The icon’s menu shows what is happening and runs Analyze and Synchronize. Closing the window quits the app, unless you turn on Keep running in the notification area when the window is closed in Settings.
AEShot Sync has a window and an icon in the system tray. The icon’s menu shows what is happening and runs Analyze and Synchronize. Closing the window quits the app, unless you turn on Keep running in the system tray when the window is closed in Settings.
AEShot Sync looks for a new version about a minute after it starts, then once a day. When one is out, a window shows what’s new. Click Update: it downloads the update, checks its signature, installs it and opens again, and your settings and profiles stay. A critical update reminds you until it’s installed. To look now, choose Check for Updates… in the AEShot Sync menu, under About AEShot Sync, or in its menu bar menu, or click Check Now in Settings › General › Updates, which also has Check for updates automatically.
AEShot Sync looks for a new version about a minute after it starts, then every hour. When one is out, a window shows what’s new. Click Update: it downloads the update, checks its signature, installs it and opens again, and your settings and profiles stay. A critical update reminds you until it’s installed. To look now, choose Check for Updates… next to About AEShot Sync in the menu of its icon in the notification area or in the … (More) menu, or click Check Now in Settings › General › Updates, which also has Check for updates automatically. AEShot Sync 1.1.0 to 1.1.3 can’t update themselves: install 1.1.4 or later once from the AEShot Sync page. In 1.1.2 and 1.1.3, the Download button of the failure notice opens the installer.
On Linux, AEShot Sync looks for a new version about a minute after it starts, then once a day. When one is out, a window shows what’s new. Click Update: it downloads the update, checks its signature, installs it with your system’s package manager (apt, dnf, zypper or pacman) after asking for your password, and opens again; your settings and profiles stay. A critical update reminds you until it’s installed. To look now, choose Check for Updates… in the … (More) menu next to About AEShot Sync, or in its tray menu, or click Check Now in Settings › General › Updates, which also has Check for updates automatically. A copy not installed from the packages on aeshot.com only shows Download. Versions before 1.1.1 can’t do this yet: install the newer package from the AEShot Sync page once.
Settings › General shows this installation’s Installation ID with Copy, and Write a Review on aeshot.com opens the review page with it filled in. Reviews need Count this installation turned on. How reviews work
You can also write one in the app: choose Write a Review… in the AEShot Sync menu.
You can also write one in the app: choose Write a Review… in the icon’s menu or under More.
A profile remembers two folders and how to keep them in step.
Analyze only reads. Nothing is written to the destination until you have seen the plan.
Update copies new and changed files and never removes anything from the destination. Mirror makes the destination match the source.
A scheduled run analyzes first and synchronizes only when nothing needs your OK. Otherwise it waits and notifies you.
Mirror never deletes: what it takes out of the destination waits in a hidden archive folder there, until you delete it.
AEShot Sync copies between folders on your computer. A cloud folder works as source or destination, and the cloud app does the uploading.
If a run stops, for example because a drive was unplugged, the file being written keeps a temporary name. Your existing copy is untouched.
Not on its own. Update mode never removes anything. Mirror mode moves items that are no longer in the source to an archive folder on the destination, after you confirm the list. Deleting old archives is a separate, confirmed step.
The file being written stays under its temporary name; your existing copy is untouched. Next time, AEShot Sync shows the leftover and offers to clean it up.
Yes. Any drive your computer can read and write, and also two folders on the same disk.
No. AEShot Sync copies one way. It can use the folders of cloud apps, such as iCloud Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox, as source or destination; their own apps do the uploading.
No account, and syncing never needs the internet. AEShot Sync goes online only to look for updates and to count its installation anonymously. Your files never leave your computer.
No account, and syncing never needs the internet. On Linux, AEShot Sync goes online only to count its installation anonymously. Your files never leave your computer.
Quit AEShot Sync and move it from the Applications folder to the Trash.
Uninstall AEShot Sync from the list of installed apps in Windows Settings. Your profiles, settings and logs stay.
Remove the package: sudo apt purge aeshot-sync (Debian, Ubuntu), sudo dnf remove aeshot-sync (Fedora), sudo zypper remove aeshot-sync (openSUSE) or sudo pacman -R aeshot-sync (Arch). Delete your profiles first, or their schedules stay behind.
Profiles and run logs are in the app’s container: ~/Library/Containers/com.ckyr.AEShotSync. A Mirror archive is in .AEShotSync-Archive on the destination.
Profiles and settings are in %APPDATA%\AEShot Sync, run logs in %LOCALAPPDATA%\AEShot Sync\Logs. A Mirror archive is in .AEShotSync-Archive on the destination.
Profiles and settings are in ~/.config/AEShot Sync, run logs in ~/.local/share/AEShot Sync/Logs. A Mirror archive is in .AEShotSync-Archive on the destination.
macOS 14 or later, on Apple silicon or Intel.
Windows 10 (version 2004) or later, 64-bit.
64-bit Linux with systemd. KDE Plasma 6 is recommended; other desktops work too.
Your files stay on your computer and nothing about them is sent anywhere. The privacy policy has the details.
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Questions, a problem, or an idea for AEShot Sync? Write to support@aeshot.com. Please include your system version, the AEShot Sync version (shown in its About window), and, for a problem with a run, its run log.
Still stuck? Email support@aeshot.com, or see AEShot Support for downloads and installing at work.
