Are you an existing user of Synk 6? Great! We're glad that you're moving up to Synk 7. This document will give you a quick overview of some of the things you need to know that are different between Synk 6 and Synk 7.
The biggest change between Synk 6 and Synk 7 that you need to understand is that Synk 7 works live. While with Synk 6, you manually ran scripts, or set them up on a schedule, with Synk 7 a script is simply either off or on. While the script is on, your data is automatically kept in sync.
This has a lot of benefits, from being faster and keeping your data safer to reducing the likelihood of conflicts. It's also much simpler to work with and easier to manage; you just need to shift your mindset a bit from the old way of how scripts worked in Synk 6.
It's fairly common for somebody to want to sync everything in a folder, but with just a couple of exceptions. Occasionally, an advanced user will want to exclude a number of items based upon some (possibly quite complicated) criteria.
In Synk 6, these two usages were merged together into the one rules system. In our opinion, this made it much too complicated for your everyday user to do just regular everyday exclusions, so in Synk 6, we've separated out excluding specific items from the complicated rules system. Now, you can just add items to a simple list of items to include, which is a much better solution for most people, while the full rules system with all of its complexity is still available in Synk Pro.
When importing scripts from Synk 6, we do our best to convert rules that are really just simple exclusions into the new simple exclusion list. Sometimes (usually because a rule has been customized somewhat, often accidentally) it doesn't work out and you'll need to add the exclusion to the list yourself, and delete the full-fledged rule that was imported. (If you're using Synk 7 Standard, this is a common reason why you might get a message about an imported script requiring Synk Pro; downgrading the script will remove the Pro-requiring custom rule.
Learn more about excluding specific items
Learn more about using rules [PRO]
Synk 7 has removed the custom encryption support that Synk 6 Pro had, due to its limitations and proprietary nature. If you were using Synk 6 Pro's encryption feature, you should read the following page:
While Synk 7 is a total rewrite and has many, many new features, it's a good idea to check out the What's new in Synk 7? page to see in general where changes have been made in Synk 7.