 Christopher says, I'm digging my new setup. He's got a 27 inch iMac as his studio display for his new M1 Mac studio and says I am now duplicating that for my office setup. Okay, great. Here's my question or perhaps challenge. How do I sync all four of my computers to mirror one another, specifically the files? And he gets a little more granular because there's a couple of easy answers that I think he's gonna try and take off the table for us, but we might try to put him back on. Christopher continues, I know if I use the desktop for storing files, iCloud can automatically sync that to all of my Macs, but the desktops will look like my windshield during a love bug season in Florida, very, very messy. What is a better option? I see Chrono Sync Express on setup. Is this a good option? I know there's always iCloud, which is what would be syncing your desktop, and the documents, which is where I file the majority of my files, except my downloads and a couple of files that I have in the sidebar for quick access. This is where syncing and continuity becomes really important, how to mirror between the four Macs. So yeah, iCloud documents is certainly the easiest way if you're using iCloud storage or you have enough iCloud storage, even with the free plan to do what you wanna do, but it doesn't work on all folders, just those specific ones, desktop and documents. In fact, I think it's called desktop and documents syncing when you click that checkbox in there. Chrono Sync is one option. Another one is called Resilio Sync. This used to be called BitTorrent Sync, but they changed the name because, well, people weren't using it because they're like, oh, I don't wanna use Torrents. I don't wanna get in trouble with that or whatever. This is, there's enough, there's no trouble to get into here. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol, which means you don't need a server in order for multiple computers to coordinate sharing data with one another. That's really the way to sort of zoom out and say it. And so Resilio Sync takes that technology and lets you sync a folder or multiple folders between multiple devices. It doesn't all have to be Macs. It's very much a cross-platform thing. Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, obviously Mac OS. And there is a free version that might do what you want. And then there's paid versions where you can either, I think it's a one-time license for the paid versions. Yeah, it's 35 bucks. Oh, it's 99 bucks a one-time license for a family or 60 bucks for a one-time license for one person. And that just gives you some more granular options. But try the free one at Resilio Sync because it's essentially like setting up your own drop box with multiple folders without using a server at all. All the computers become, it's just a peer-to-peer thing. So everybody's the server, if you will. So that's what comes to mind for me. I realize I might have overcomplicated this. Anybody have any thoughts? Well, if you have a Synology, there's Synology Drive. Me, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, that would be the obvious answer. Yeah, if you have a Synology, Synology Drive works great. Yeah. That's what I'm using. And that's why I forgot about Resilio Sync because Resilio is great. But he mentioned the other thing and like you said, we're gonna put a free option back on the table. My idea to quote-unquote hack this one would be to put one folder on your desktop, name it AAA or something like that. So it's easily fine. Put subfolders in that. Drag that one folder even over to your left sidebar and find her. And that'll give you instant access to all the subfolders and files that you could put in there. That's kind of a, it's a free hack. No, that's, yes. And you could do the same thing with your documents folder. Absolutely, yeah. Any of the folders that iCloud Syncs automatically. The only issue would be downloads, right? And so you could set your default downloads look, you could change your default downloads location to be inside one of these synced folders, for sure. Or you could use something like Hazel to watch your downloads folder and move the files that appear there over to some other synced folder. I would caution syncing the downloads folder. And I think there's a reason Apple doesn't do this. And that's because we wind up downloading a lot of things that may quickly fill up our iCloud storage without us intentionally doing anything, right? I know I realized downloading things is intention, but we're not saving them to a folder that we know is synced. We're just letting these downloads sort of happen to a place that happens to be synced. And my guess is that's why Apple isn't doing that, but you can, there are ways of redirecting the downloads folder. Safari lets you set it and other browsers do too. So that would be another way of, like you said, the free hack if you're looking for that.