Can I sync an entire (like my drive D:\ in Windows) from PC1 to PC2?

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SetSee

Newbie question:
My files on my Windows PC are stored on their own drive (D:\) for simplicity and so that I can have very short pathnames, like D:\$$$\AmEx for a credit card folder. I’ve looked for 15 minutes at the FFS FAQ & Manual, and they seem to imply this can be done, but I did not find any more details about doing it, and searching this Forum’s posts did not yield the answer.

Can I use FreeFileSync to sync the folder (drive) D:\ on my PC-1 to folder (drive) A:\ on my PC-2? Is there a setup step that initially sets FFS up to that FFS on PC-1 is talking to FFS on PC-2?

If you can point to existing documentation or help files that answer this, that would be fine. But I haven't found anything yet about these issues.
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xCSxXenon

This will require setting up a network share on one computer that is able to be accessed by the other. This is something you do prior to FFS being involved at all
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John1234

Or, you can like I do use the Microsoft Windows open SSH services that come with Windows as an optional add-on.

This way you can use SFTP.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_install_firstuse?tabs=gui&pivots=windows-server-2025

These are better.

https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_windows_openssh_server