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Unison is a console file synchronization tool. Here's the issue: my old BlackBerry is starting to have problems downloading podcasts. I *think* it's probably due to TLS. The Bold 9900 has TLS 1.0 and the world has moved on to TLS 1.3. I'm not really sure why podcasters need to use TLS 1.3, but they are. Are they really worried about a MITM attack? Is someone out there itching to impersonate Nilay Patel? Anyways, I've been looking for a solution to the Podcast problem -- and I think I've found one. The old Palm-style USB sync. The process involves downloading the podcasts on my laptop, and then connecting the BlackBerry by USB and syncing the podcast folders on both devices. That's where unison comes in. Unison is a console utility (it also has a GUI apparently) that allows you to sync folders. The syntax is really simple: unison directory1 directory2 Or, in my case, since I'm syncing with a FAT32 system, the command is unison -fat directory1 directory2 It appears that when I attach the BlackBerry by USB, it establishes the same path every time. I guess only time will tell whether that's true. In any case, I am assuming that it is, and I've created a little batch file to shorten the command. If it works on a regular basis, I think I'll add the Palm Desktop sync sound to the batch file for nostalgic purposes... Unison may be useful in other contexts as well. Since it can sync any two folders that you can mount, it could provide a cloud sync alternative to syncthing. ------ Obligatory K.Mandla reference: https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/unison-an-alternative-to-rsync/