Mystery solved! I wasn’t running the latest (and last) version (3.6.9) of Replicator. On the latest one, the About button opens a screen that tells where the Settings and Logfile are stored. You can even back up your Replicator settings themselves, or transfer them to a new computer. If you’re running an older version of Replicator, you don’t even have to uninstall it. You can just install the new version over it, and all of your current settings will be saved.

I do find that when it’s first being used, it’s faster to drag the folders and their contents that you want to back up onto the second drive. Use Replicator from then on to back up or sync the folders. Likewise, if you want to delete really, really big files, it’s faster to just delete them from both the original location and the backup location. Otherwise, the “replicate file deletion” function works just fine.

Replicator still works on Windows 7 (although I have yet to figure out where it keeps its data so that I can back up my Replicator settings themselves). Sadly, there can be no future editions of Replicator because its creator, Karen Kenworthy, died last year. Rest in peace, Karen. You have left a (Ken)worthy legacy!

Just a tip regarding your “While this does tend to build up lots of extra data over time (like files you’ve deleted and such)”, if you enable a checkbox called “replicate file deletion” the destination folder remains a faithful copy of the source folder, no garbage old files there.

Sometimes I leave it disabled for non-skilled users that might delete files/folders without noticing, to avoid synchronizing such mistakes to the backup drive.

That’s very odd indeed. I just checked all of my KR destination directories on two different Win7 64Bit machines but do not see any “phantom” folders. For what it’s worth, I am including the My Music and My Video folders in the backup, and both are fully populated. In fact the sizes of both the source folders and the destination folders are identical — not seeing anything that might indicate differences between the two.

I’m not sure how it would make a difference but on all of my machines the Document folders are on different drives than the OS (I use separate C:/ drive just for installed programs–all data is stored on different drives for security in case C:/ fails).

I agree with what you’re saying, and didn’t clarify well enough in my post. Going too far in either direction will indeed cause problems (I tend to encounter much more of the fundamentalist mindset) and the goal should not either be “being unified”, but rather, our goal should be to imitate Christ.

So this challenge is, I think, a legitimate one and a worthy one.

But there are nearly as many Christians who go too far in the opposite direction and make unity the goal. Every day you hear of a new unity movement that’s somehow going to perfectly bring everybody together.

It’s not that the fundies are 100% right when they say, “Truth cannot be sacrificed for the sake of unity,” because some truths aren’t important enough to squabble over. But just as “being right” shouldn’t be our goal, so “being unified” shouldn’t be our goal.

The Christians around the world who are dying for their faith aren’t giving their lives to prove a doctrinal point, true. But they aren’t giving their lives to demonstrate unity, either. Their sacrifices do prove points and demonstrate unity, but that is not their purpose.

Our purpose is and must always be the pursuit of the glory of Christ, and nothing else. If the power of the gospel fuels us and we are focused only on bringing Christ glory, we don’t have to worry about being “unified” or being “right”. We simply obey Christ and leave the rest to Him. If we are obeying Christ, then unity with others who do the same will come.

“We would see Jesus,” and Jesus sought neither on unity for its sake nor truth for its sake, but only the will of the Father. So must we. Amen! Let us show them Jesus!