Windows Live Wave 3: SkyDrive (Updated)

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gregsedwards — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:03:28 GMT

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JonT — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:16:36 GMT

So why not just combine the 2? that way, for example, I can keep my photos synced, all in one place, on my windows live sites and share them with friends?

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ScottIsAFool — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:39:55 GMT

@JonT I think the easiest way to look at it is Mesh (in its current form) is file synchronisation, and SkyDrive is file sharing.

You also have to remember that the sync features in Mesh is just a feature of the Live/Mesh platform :)

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JonT — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:16:18 GMT

so im a bit confused about the whole Skydrive/Mesh thing. Aren't they basicly the same thing except mesh has the sync features and skydrive seems to be more integrated into other windows live services? Are we always going to have both these services or will they one day become one?

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CalumJR — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:35:14 GMT

I've just noticed, again, scottisafool, that your contacts in your What's New feed have their status showing (e.g. 'Away', 'Busy', 'Available', etc), however, throughout my whole Windows Live web services, this is not shown for me. I cannot see mine or anyone else's status.

Does anybody know why please? Ths is a vital feature to me.

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yertthedestroyer — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:49:47 GMT

The lack of these features being worldwide is a real shame.

Ditto for single file uploading; SkyDrive is different from Mesh (although SkyDrive getting Mesh syncing would be really cool) in its function and may be for some time. This needs fixed sooner rather then later.

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ScottIsAFool — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:19 GMT

@DN2004 I've been told that the reason skydrive doesnt have named links yet is due to "server scalability". In other words, having named urls put too much strain on the servers. I did argue that surely this must be the same for Spaces, but that's the only answer I was given.

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damaster — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:59:31 GMT

@DN2004: I agree with you there - quite frustrating when I wanted to move a bunch of files to another folder, I had to do it one by one.

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lbastie — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:35:45 GMT

"the ability to upload entire folders from your local directories" is covered by Live Mesh

Maybe in the next release SkyDrive and Mesh will be a same service.

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DN2004 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:32:15 GMT

Wish you could select multiple files to move instead of 1 at a time or just a folder

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DN2004 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:31:33 GMT

SkyDrive & Photos service seems to be intermittent. They are going up and down like a yoyo here

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CalumJR — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:39:08 GMT

There's another feature missing: the ability to upload entire folders from your local directories :(

I find SkyDrive useless without this, which is a shame because I'd love to use it to have an online back-up of my documents and photos (it would also be easier then to upload photo albums.

Is there a reason why they have not included this simple fundamental feature?

As I say, I find SkyDrive useless without this, unfortunately, because I do not have the time to upload each individual file directly in order to backup the files on my computer :( - it would take over a year to backup all my photos and university documents :(

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lbastie — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:59:22 GMT

Interesting to see that windows live sync is not in there (which makes sense?)

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damaster — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:55:41 GMT

@DN2004: Groups and Events already have named links available. (In fact, Events had that ages ago) So you could have your group with an address of <groupname>.groups.live.com . Profile's named links is coming. I'm not sure about SkyDrive and Photos though.

@wH1spEr: I know the Photo Upload tool allows you to drag and drop from Photo Gallery into the browser and upload to Photos - and it allows you to upload the original too. Sorry if this wasn't answering your question directly, I havn't tried uploading from Photo Gallery to Photos yet...

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wH1spEr — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:42:52 GMT

Does anybody know how to disable picture resizing in Photo Gallery when uploading to Photos - I want the full size, not just 1600. Another way is uploading them one by one from skydrive, but I want to use Photo Gallery?

As for the update I think it's awesome, only if we had some plugin or addon in windows explorer for connecting to SkyDrive as a remote drive.