How to automate sync files between Phone & Laptop?

[sba923]

I've bought Total Commander primarily 'cos it's the only way I've found to copy only new/updated files from my Windows 8.1 laptop to my Windows Phone 8.1 Lumia 830 phone--using the "Windows Media Audio 2 (MP3) 1.2" plug-in.

I can manually perform the operations I need whenever I need to update my phone, but I'd like to know whether this can be automated.

The operations are:

- copy all files from laptop directory X to phone directory Y, with the "overwrite all older" option
- delete all useless (*.ps1, *.ksh, thumbs.db, desktop.ini, albumart*.jpg...) files from the phone
- delete all *.mp3 that don't exist in X anymore on the phone


Is there a way to automate this (ideally, from the command line, by launching TotalCmd with some command-line options)?

[Hacker]

Hello sba923,

Is there a way to automate this (ideally, from the command line, by launching TotalCmd with some command-line options)?

Nope, unless you use a third party scripting system like AutoHotkey (site seems currently down) to send commands and keypresses to TC.

Roman

[Peter]

...system like AutoHotkey (site seems currently down) ...

The site works fine ....

[Hacker]

Peter,
Indeed, it's back up.

Roman

[sba923]

Too bad... Scripting the UI of an application is usually something not too reliable, 'cos one has to account for speed, (all) possible errors...

BTW, I'm not sure what the best, reliable (i.e. making sure that no files would be inadvertently deleted) way to achieve the third step in my process? There's a "synchronize dirs." option in TC but I'm not sure how it works...

[Ovg]

2sba923
Try F1 key in Sync Dir dialog - it works!