def sync(client=None, force=False, verbose=True):
    """ Let's face it... pushing this stuff to S3 is messy.
        A lot of different things need to be calculated for each file
        and they have to be in a certain order as some variables rely
        on others.
    """
    from mediasync import backends
    from mediasync.conf import msettings
    from mediasync.signals import pre_sync, post_sync

    # create client connection
    if client is None:
        client = backends.client()

    client.open()
    client.serve_remote = True

    # send pre-sync signal
    pre_sync.send(sender=client)

    #
    # sync joined media
    #

    for joinfile, sourcefiles in msettings['JOINED'].iteritems():
        
        filedata = combine_files(joinfile, sourcefiles, client)
        if filedata is None:
            # combine_files() is only interested in CSS/JS files.
            continue
        filedata, dirname = filedata

        content_type = mimetypes.guess_type(joinfile)[0] or msettings['DEFAULT_MIMETYPE']

        remote_path = joinfile
        if dirname:
            remote_path = "%s/%s" % (dirname, remote_path)

        if client.process_and_put(filedata, content_type, remote_path, force=force):
            if verbose:
                print "[%s] %s" % (content_type, remote_path)

    #
    # sync static media
    #

    for dirname in os.listdir(client.media_root):

        dirpath = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(client.media_root, dirname))

        if os.path.isdir(dirpath):

            for filename in listdir_recursive(dirpath):

                # calculate local and remote paths
                filepath = os.path.join(dirpath, filename)
                remote_path = "%s/%s" % (dirname, filename)

                content_type = mimetypes.guess_type(filepath)[0] or msettings['DEFAULT_MIMETYPE']

                if not is_syncable_file(os.path.basename(filename)) or not os.path.isfile(filepath):
                    continue # hidden file or directory, do not upload

                filedata = open(filepath, 'rb').read()

                if client.process_and_put(filedata, content_type, remote_path, force=force):
                    if verbose:
                        print "[%s] %s" % (content_type, remote_path)
    
    # send post-sync signal while client is still open
    post_sync.send(sender=client)
    
    client.close()
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