Since I'm working in two environments, I need a way to keep files in sync between them. Right after getting the LS80, I downloaded Microsoft's SyncToy beta. It had a few rough edges, the most problematic being for network shares, you had to specify a mapped drive (you know, the DOS C: thing); how archaic. Well,
SyncToy 1.0 was released and it fixes this problem! It also added support for 800x600... more on this later.
The addition of UNC paths to folder pairs makes this work really well with the Mac. You can use the Mac's built-in Windows Sharing (in the Sharing control panel), but that only shares your home folder. To create shares for specific folders, you will need SharePoints. You need to turn on Windows Sharing in the control panel first, then you can add whichever specific folder you want to share in Sharepoints.
In SyncToy, simply specify the UNC path for your share: \\MyMac\MyShare, where MyShare is the name you gave the share in SharePoints. You can also use your Mac's IP address instead of its name. The nice thing about this arrangement is you don't have to connect to the share before using SyncToy -- it will do it for you when you sync.
So, there are still a few annoyances. One is that you can't change a folder path once the pair is created; you have to recreate it (am I missing something?) The second is my increasingly favorite peeve: the new version works in 800x600, but not 600x800 (and don't switch from portrait to landscape after starting SyncToy, or you get a real mess -- I'm guessing this is using Windows Forms on .Net or something). What's annoying is that there is absolutely no reason it needs that much screen real estate. All the elements of the GUI would fit just fine in a 600x800 display. Makes you wonder how we ever got anything done in 640x480. Ugggh.