I’m in the process of setting up my work laptop after reformatting and installing Server 2008 64 bit (a change from Vista 32 bit). My primary reason for this was to continue my Hyper-V evaluation that I started at home. I just got an upgrade in the form of 4 GB of ram and a new external hard drive with a FireWire (FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0 and ESATA) for my laptop.

I’ve been using Microsoft Groove for folder synchronization between my home and work computers. Much to my surprise after getting Groove installed and my account moved over to my laptop, I was greeted with an error message indicating that folder synchronization was not supported on a 64 bit OS!?!?!

I think the first hit I got on Google summed up my thoughts, “You got to be kidding?”. Alas, they were not. So I’m back to using Folder Share, which has gotten an upgrade from when I stopped using it just over a year ago. It does in fact support 64 bit, and actually has better limits then Groove, including a max file size of 2GB and 10,000 files per folder. The only major limitation is that you can only have 10 folders shared, but I only need 5-6, maybe 7, so it’s good enough for me right now.