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"25 GB of free storage on Windows Live With SkyDrive, it's easy to store and share your files and photos with almost anyone."

WTF, i was about to sign up for drop box, 2gb free, but then i saw this
anyone use this?

3/21/2010 8:19:26 PM

Yeah. It's decent enough. I use it as another "Backup place" in the cloud.

3/21/2010 8:48:56 PM

I also still use dropbox to sync up various files between work and home.

Never can have too many places to store stuff in the cloud

3/21/2010 8:49:50 PM

Well SkyDrive doesn't allow you to monitor a folder on your computer like Dropbox...you have to manually upload files to the service.

3/21/2010 8:50:47 PM

That's what the service looks like...benz240 is right: it ain't dropbox. It is a passive storage service. If you want to sync up documents between computers Dropbox is the way to go. However if you only want a place to house stuff Skydrive ain't too bad. Like I said earlier: I use both for different reasons.

3/21/2010 8:57:08 PM

live mesh does folder sync and has online storage as well. IDK why they offer both services since they kind of overlap.

3/22/2010 12:00:49 AM

^thanks that looks interesting

wow it has remote pc access as well, they're killing several birds and companies with one stone

[Edited on March 22, 2010 at 12:23 AM. Reason : .]

3/22/2010 12:21:36 AM

Live Mesh has saved my ass numerous times.

3/22/2010 12:31:54 AM

does anyone use live mesh with win 7, i have win 7 64 bit but it says its only compatible with xp sp2 or vista

3/22/2010 12:41:45 AM

I'm using it right now with Windows 7 Pro 64-bit and on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

It works great. I use the service a lot to keep my school files synced between my PC and laptop.

3/22/2010 2:15:46 AM

sky drive doesnt let you upload folders, also max file size is 50mb
still decent but a pain to use to upload all your pics, etc unless you zip 'em first

Mesh however looks promising, but does it auto synchronize or is it manual
and can you put the synchronized folders anywhere or only on desktop cause thats where it goes by default?

3/22/2010 2:23:32 AM

I use mesh on Win 7 64bit.

Yes it auto-syncs. Yes you can map the folders anywhere on each device. No, there is no per-file size limit, the only limit is 5gb total in the cloud. Yes it's amazing.

You also get remote desktop access to every machine you have connected to Live Mesh. From anywhere, with any other machine on your mesh.

And the sync is fast as hell (assuming you have the bandwidth available). I rely on this service more and more.

3/22/2010 3:35:24 AM

pretty cool

is it possible to pay for more storage if you want more than 5gb?

also, i can't for huge amounts of bandwidth to be available with services like this.. if your internet connection was fast enough to work with files at the speed we're used to doing with local files, this would be awesome. i know i'd love to pay a few bucks a year to have all of my stuff somewhere that is a hell of a lot more reliable than my hard drive and accessible anywhere

/captain obvious

[Edited on March 22, 2010 at 10:49 AM. Reason : asfd]

3/22/2010 10:29:08 AM

I think live mesh is smart enough to do local discovery of nearby clients, so if you're syncing 2 computers on the same lan it syncs them locally instead of sending to the cloud and then back down.

I use it to port my java development environment from computer to computer and it saves so much time. The only things i wish it did better are replicating sym links, use RDP when remoting windows instead of screen scrapes, and, of course, more space.

Looking at the connections page for it, though, it doesn't seem like they've done much development work on it in forever. Seems like of all the Live services they've been trying to push, including Bing, its the most widely liked product. I'd think they'd want to use it to push their brand forward.

3/22/2010 11:45:55 AM

^^ No, there's no "pay" model for Live mesh. And if there were, it would be a LOT more than a few bucks a year. I've heard rumors that the current beta services cost nearly $50/month/user as it is.

^They haven't done anything more for client connections after adding OSX, but it's still very active on the back end. Keep in mind there's this whole thing called Azure

3/22/2010 1:44:06 PM

so are they planning to make this a pay service in the future?
if not how do they make money on it?
i dont want to depend on something only to have it taken away later

3/22/2010 2:01:37 PM

Has anyone heard of ADrive?

http://www.adrive.com

Just found them and they offer 50GB free, but, I cannot find much information about them and am therefore not encouraged to trust them with anything important.

3/22/2010 2:05:23 PM

^^ I have no idea, I have no idea. All I can tell you is that a lot of MS Employees will be irate if it ever goes away.

And the beauty of mesh is that if it ever does stop, you don't lose anything. You still have all of your files locally on each device, you just lose the synchronization service and the cloud storage segment.

[Edited on March 22, 2010 at 2:10 PM. Reason : .]

3/22/2010 2:09:24 PM

Im not to the 5gig limit yet, but if one of my shares goes over what happens? Does my shit stop syncing between computers or does it just truncate what gets stored in the cloud?

3/22/2010 2:10:47 PM

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"Has anyone heard of ADrive?"

i've seen geocities websites that look more professional, lol
yeah i wouldn't trust them with files just yet, but 50gb is pretty sweet

3/22/2010 2:17:57 PM