While Synk is designed to be very efficient and has been engineered to cause no noticeable slowdown under typical workloads, if you have slow computers or networks or intensive workloads, you may wish to give up some of the benefits of live synchronization to reduce the amount of work going on at particular critical times.
Rather than making you manually turn Synk on and off, Synk offers several settings to automatically pause synchronization in common situations.
If you select the “Don’t synchronize while I’m using the computer” option, the script works much like a screensaver, waiting for you to quit using your computer for a bit before doing any work, then automatically stopping again when you return.
If you have an intensive, but unattended, workload on your machine or network, so that you don’t want Synk working during certain times even when you’re not using the machine, you can use the “Don’t synchronize between X and Y” option. For instance, you could set this to the duration of your workday to suspend operation during that time, while still allowing everything to work normally at night.
In some cases, you may know that a particular application is very sensitive to extra disk or network use, or is just indicative that you’re going to be heavily using the system. Many professional audio/video applications could fall into this category.
Synk Pro allows you to have Synk automatically pause whenever one of these applications are running, using the “Don’t synchronize while any of these applications are running” option. Just select the checkbox and click the “+” button to add an application to the list.