Sync a folder from the server with 2 other macs?

This is a story of 3 macs.
Mac Mini - the server
Macbook Air - Kelly's Computer
Macbook Pro - Ethan's computer.
We run a small business, and I've created a set of folders on the Mac Mini which runs 24/7 and words as a nice server. (for example, a folder for HR, one for IT, one for Sales, one for markeing... and so on. Each folder can contain anything from a MS Word doc to excel, to adobe files, to media files...
I have a copy of that "set of folders on both Kelly and my computer. So, I might open a spread sheet, or a word doc, make a change, then I save it and have to copy and replace the file on teh server (if I remember).
Or, I might copy a new media file into the marketing folder, but then I need to remember to also copy it to the server.
Anyone see where I'm going with this?
Google Docs - No. I don't think it that's what I need. I'm learning it, but Google docs changes the formating of my MS word files. Plus, I have other kids of files, such as adobe files for marketing and such.
Is there a good "auto sync" or something that could be a good choice? I'm open to other ideas. Perhaps I don't know google docs enough. But, I'd also like to keep this in house. IT's only the 2 of us, so I'm not a fan of depending on a third party company for something like this.
I seem to remember that Retrospect would targe a specified folder, and anytime ANYTHING changed in that folder, it would sync it to the server. Does it still do that? Anything else?
I'm open to suggestions.
Thanks
Ethan-

I like Dropbox for this kind of thing. I've been using it for a year or two, very stable, free, and easy to use.
The Google people have a talent for making their apps incompatible with Mavericks, so I would avoid Google Docs.
If you don't want to use something in the cloud, there are a lot of apps for this, like Sync Folders Mac App Store - Sync Folders , FolderWatch FolderWatch: Effortlessly Keep Two Folders in Sync | Mac.AppStorm , or you can do it with Automator and rsync. See Applescript: copy subfolders to another...: Apple Support Communities

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