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hi,
i have a desktop and a laptop and have a couple of folders synced by microsoft live sync. is there an android app to sync some of these folders to the sd-card of my htc desire?
if not, is there an app, that can sync some folders on my desktop to my htc desire on the sd-card. i tryied dropbox, but you can only sync the dropbox folder. if you want to sync a folder outside of it, you have to work with junctions / hard links, that's not what i want to do.
i want to sync my photo folder of the sd-card to my desktop and some folders with excel and word files.
I'm on a Mac, but in my Dropbox prefs, you can define the folder for it to use. If that's the case on your platform, you should be able to set it to the same folder Microsoft Live Sync uses...
so I've been trying to figure out this whole "cloud" concept.
(1) Using Windows Live Mesh 2011, I'm able to keep folders on my pc synced in the cloud on my skydrive. However, am I able to access these documents from my handset?
(2) Do I have to manually upload documents onto my skydrive or is there some option in microsoft office/word to upload them?
(3) I guess it's impossible to upload document files from your handset to your skydrive
so what I don't get is, why did they decide to go into this whole "cloud" concept, only to have the "cloud" not work the way it should?
SkyDrive
I've been able to access SkyDrive from my WINDOWS 7 PHONE (HTC HD 7) I can view the files in SkyDrive, open up a document and read it/view etc. But I can't download them onto my handset, so i can edit them and such in MS Office on my phone. According to MS Office on the windows 7 phones, you gota use something called sharepoint.
Hope this helps.
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they don't have it properly intergrated into the office hub at present but rumour has it that it will come as part of the update. what you can do however is in IE visit skydrive.com, and from there view your skydrive, open files, edit them, save them, and they auto update on their own. i am not sure if it will allow for adding though.
from reading around here, onenote can sync to skydrive though, so i'm pretty sure that with the right setup at present, you can get that going at least.
Hmmm, I can't seem to Edit them. I'm on skydrive now,
just googled skydrive, got windows skydrive up, logged in and viewed all my docs on there. I can click them and open them, view and read, but i can't edit them :S
Unless I'm missing something haha, don't get my wrong i like the fact i can open them from skydrive and read them. But i want them on my phone, in MS Office so i can edit etc
i don't think you can edit the files on skydrive directly
you can save them to your phone (bring up the menu in your file and select save as) and then edit them
and then you can upload to skydrive using the same name...
unfortunately there isn't an easier way to do it.
in answer to the questions the OP asked
1. yes
2. you can set up a network drive and use it as you would a normal drive..copy/paste/save etc
3. yes you can.
i actually like the whole cloud thing..
the only thing is that i am on a 500MB a month tariff (orange) so i worry about going over that..
but the cloud system means that everything is in sync and you don't have to fiddle around with USB sticks etc for small files.
i have all my contacts synced onto Google and windows Live and same with my calendar.
I personally prefer Google because its cloud products have more features and is a lot lot faster...i find windows live very slow..
Ya, i just added my Skydrive documents folder to a mapped drive, so now i can just drag and drop files... nice
Thought i would give it a go dropping a word doc in the Onenote folder to see if it would sync to the phone... but no lol... worth a go though.
At least now i have a nice easy way rather than going to the website and using an upload box. be it ok... this way is much nicer.
thanks for all the replies
what I need to know now is, is there anyway to access folders OTHER than the one marked documents on skydrive via my wp7 handset? When I sync my pc with skydrive there's a dedicated space called "Sync Folder"
I can't seem to access it with my handset
going to have to wait till they release office 365... sharepoint doesnt even work with our phones right now unless you happen to have a dedicated quad core server running sharepoint on that or something. I fiddled with it all for DAYS trying to get it so I could access work documents on my phone from sharepoint but NOPE! Pretty radiculous. Office 365 isnt even going to be available probably for another year! *sigh*
Originally SkyDrive and LiveMesh were products that had nothing whatsoever in common (except for being Cloud services). Lately Microsoft decided to merge them a little - so now you got a 25 GB SkyDrive AND a 5 GB Sync-SkyDrive. Those two can't talk to each other and if you got a Word Doc on the Sync-Drive you can't open it in office Web. If it's on the REAL Skydrive you can access it.
Unluckily only the pictures hub and OneNote currently integrate with the real SkyDrive and there is no integration with the Sync-Drive.
My guess is that doc/xls/ppt, etc. access from the office hub to SkyDrive is coming with an update.
When Microsoft is gonna clean up the mess of the two different SkyDrives is an entirely different matter - would like to see them merged (even if I afterwards have only 25 GB instead of 25 + 5).
Would you mind sharing your method
mwako said:
Ya, i just added my Skydrive documents folder to a mapped drive, so now i can just drag and drop files... nice
Thought i would give it a go dropping a word doc in the Onenote folder to see if it would sync to the phone... but no lol... worth a go though.
At least now i have a nice easy way rather than going to the website and using an upload box. be it ok... this way is much nicer.
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Hi mwako
Would you mind sharing your method for mapping a Skydrive folder?
Many thanks
andrew-in-woking
Actually I'm trying to figure out how Skydrive is supposed to work, but I don't understand the idea...
Its limitations ruin the whole concept:
- Impossible to upload folders to Skydrive. This is insane.
- Each transfer is limited to 50MB.
Therefore I find Skydrive useless for business purposes, especially compared to other systems such as Dropbox.
In my daily job I need to transfer folders of office files. And they need to stay organized as such.
If I cannot upload folders to Skydrive, or if I can only upload files without any organization. what's the use?
Hi folks,
my first post here, to date I just read in the background.
However I just hacked the Mango update to my Optimus 7 and I have a question considering Skydrive + Mango.
I sync all my documents between my workstation, my laptop and skydrive synced storage.
However I cannot access the synced storage via my WP7, only the standard folders. Is there a way to sync my documents folder to standard skydrive as well?
Thx in advance for your help.
Kind regards,
dahlai
I can access mine. Office -> SkyDrive -> My Documents
Yeah, but this folder is empty...
The data only gets synced between my two computers and Skydrive synced storage, which does not appear on WP7. So, how can I sync the data to the "real" skydrive.
Or am I missing an important point here`?
anyone here, who could help me?
Now I mounted my Skydrive as a loval drive, syncing tools like Syncback however cannot synchronize data with the drive -.-
You're mixing up two things: SkyDrive and SkyDrive synced storage.
SkyDrive is the online service that gives you 25GB to store your stuff. This is the place to where you can directly upload your photos from WP7 for example.
The other thing is Live Mesh. Live Mesh allows you to sync files between several PCs and "SkyDrive synced storage". This is useful if you have two PC and you want to sync files between them, but you don't have them turned on at the same time. Live Mesh only offers 5GB of storage and you cannot access it from WP7.
You can see your Documents in skydrive here: http://skydrive.com
Only things that you upload there can be viewed and edited on your WP7.
Yes I know that. However on first sight I thought that there had to be an option that live mesh could also sync to skydrive.
I now know that this is not possible. (Cannot find any reason for that though)
So I now have the problem, that my documents on both PCs are kept in sync via live mesh, which also syncs to the 5gb of synced storage. Now with Mango on my phone and the ability to access/edit documents from skydrive, the only logical conclusion for me is to keep those files in sync with my PCs as well.
As of yet there seemingly isn´t any solution to it.
One can mount skydrive as a local drive, but you cannot sync files with it, even though one can drag and drop....
Any thoughts?
Missing workflow microsoft ???
Me too, Microsoft are missing the point here (or are we ?) You want to sync your docs between computers and have them open quickly/locally...but also want these same docs available on the web and WP7. Hope this gets resolved in a later beta of Mango...
So far, your only solution would be to browse your sync'd folder through the browser on the phone.
Merge them
They should just merge the 2 features together and allow any skydrive folder to be synced.
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So far, your only solution would be to browse your sync'd folder through the browser on the phone.
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and that only works if you switch the browser to full mode (not mobile)
Hmm, really hope this gets resolved, at latest with the final Mango release.
Otherwise the whole skydrive does not really make a lot of sense, being integrated into the Office Hub
followed this guide and mine works.
http://www.ampercent.com/access-open-sync-skydrive-windows-explorer/6724/
This is exactly the kind of thing that make me mad about microsoft... its sooo damn frustrating sometimes.
WHY on earth have this nice LIVE mesh feature, where you keep all of your pcs docs nicely synced, but then, dont have the option of seeing it in your WINDOWS phone, you need to manually upload it to ANOTHER folder in a PC (wich erase the whole purpose), and dont give me the "just download it from the browser" thing...
I love the wp7 mango beta, its one hell of a slick OS, actually im kind of a microsoft fan in general, i use PCs exclusively, office, xbox, zune HD, hotmail, live, skydrive & mesh and now WP7 (i do own an ipad though)... but why it is soo hard for them to make everything work together?? this is an important feature for me since i sometimes need to check some excel files on the go, and i need the most up to date version... So im screwed, since dropbox (which i used) its a no go in wp7 (i dont mind, since its not MSFT fault), but mesh (a msft service) its useless in their phone, even in the ipad i have access to it via iSMEStorage...
Music/video streaming is nice and all, but this feature seems to me even easier to implement, they can even disable the editing/uploading functionality, i believe most of us can do with a viewer only...
...end of rant...
I dont get it, I just created a MS onenote file on skydrive and selected three contacts by their email who i gave permission to view/edit it..
they got an email from my live ID saying:
"ABCD shared the folder GROUP PROJECT with you on Windows Live. Click Here"
But once I click on it, it takes me to live.com log in screen..
Now they have gmail accounts, not live accounts for their email..
One even had a live account and logged in, but it said :
Error message
It appears that you don’t have permission to access GROUP PROJECT. You might be trying to access it with a different account or might need to ask the folder’s owner for permission to access it.
Plz help.. how to share a onenote file on skydrive so that multiple people can edit it??
Purple11 said:
I dont get it, I just created a MS onenote file on skydrive and selected three contacts by their email who i gave permission to view/edit it..
they got an email from my live ID saying:
"ABCD shared the folder GROUP PROJECT with you on Windows Live. Click Here"
But once I click on it, it takes me to live.com log in screen..
Now they have gmail accounts, not live accounts for their email..
One even had a live account and logged in, but it said :
Error message
It appears that you don’t have permission to access GROUP PROJECT. You might be trying to access it with a different account or might need to ask the folder’s owner for permission to access it.
Plz help.. how to share a onenote file on skydrive so that multiple people can edit it??
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I think there is an option to NOT require a person sign in to edit the notebook. The downside to this if any of your friends share the notebook link it can be accessed by others.
Also permissions are managed by the folder the notebook is in on skydrive. A good solution is to create a folder on skydrive. Give permissions to the folder to your friends and move the notebook into that folder.
Most of you may know this already.
There is no Dropbox app for Surface RT yet. However, if you have enough space in your Skydrive to spare, you can have your Dropbox folder inside the SkyDrive folder on your desktop.
I have 25G on my SkyDrive and about 5G on Dropbox. Once I changed my Dropbox location to inside Skydrive folder, I was able to access all the files from the Surface SkyDrive app.
Another option is to use "File Manager" app - there is a free as well as a paid version. It allows you to link a bunch of cloud storage locations (Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox etc) and allows a variety of changes on files/folders - some which are not available on the Skydrive app.
Montastic said:
Most of you may know this already.
There is no Dropbox app for Surface RT yet. However, if you have enough space in your Skydrive to spare, you can have your Dropbox folder inside the SkyDrive folder on your desktop.
I have 25G on my SkyDrive and about 5G on Dropbox. Once I changed my Dropbox location to inside Skydrive folder, I was able to access all the files from the Surface SkyDrive app.
Another option is to use "File Manager" app - there is a free as well as a paid version. It allows you to link a bunch of cloud storage locations (Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox etc) and allows a variety of changes on files/folders - some which are not available on the Skydrive app.
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Nice tip till the official app comes out
Montastic said:
Most of you may know this already.
There is no Dropbox app for Surface RT yet. However, if you have enough space in your Skydrive to spare, you can have your Dropbox folder inside the SkyDrive folder on your desktop.
I have 25G on my SkyDrive and about 5G on Dropbox. Once I changed my Dropbox location to inside Skydrive folder, I was able to access all the files from the Surface SkyDrive app.
Another option is to use "File Manager" app - there is a free as well as a paid version. It allows you to link a bunch of cloud storage locations (Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox etc) and allows a variety of changes on files/folders - some which are not available on the Skydrive app.
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hahahha now that is an awesome tip. Something so simple but so helpful. This will kind of be better than a drop box app since everything will be updated on both locations from the one sky drive app. I'm going to try this at home. Thanks!
Montastic said:
Most of you may know this already.
There is no Dropbox app for Surface RT yet. However, if you have enough space in your Skydrive to spare, you can have your Dropbox folder inside the SkyDrive folder on your desktop.
I have 25G on my SkyDrive and about 5G on Dropbox. Once I changed my Dropbox location to inside Skydrive folder, I was able to access all the files from the Surface SkyDrive app.
Another option is to use "File Manager" app - there is a free as well as a paid version. It allows you to link a bunch of cloud storage locations (Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox etc) and allows a variety of changes on files/folders - some which are not available on the Skydrive app.
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Hmm - So your Dropbox folder would be relocated on all your desktop systems to within your skydrive, or just one desktop. I have been using All my storage app on my Surface and it works pretty good.
guitar1969 said:
Hmm - So your Dropbox folder would be relocated on all your desktop systems to within your skydrive, or just one desktop. I have been using All my storage app on my Surface and it works pretty good.
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When you move your Dropbox folder in your SkyDrive folder, SkyDrive treats it as just like any other folder. So all your PCs/tablets that has SkyDrive will now see a folder called "Dropbox".
The Dropbox app will continue to sync this folder and so all PCs/tablets that has Dropbox will see the changes to this folder.
Of course, if you do not do this on one of your desktops, then you will have a Skydrive folder which has a Dropbox folder in it as well your original Dropbox folder which might be at a different location.
As long as you understand that Skydrive will sync its folders and Dropbox its, you'll be in good shape.
There won't be a dropbox sync app for windows RT/surface RT. 3rd party apps need to use metro, and there are too many limitations to be able to sync folders. There might be a metro only version though.
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There won't be a dropbox sync app for windows RT/surface RT. 3rd party apps need to use metro, and there are too many limitations to be able to sync folders. There might be a metro only version though.
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It was already officially announced that a Dropbox app is being developed for Windows RT and 8. Even if the app itself it metro only, obviously it will have the capability to sync your files, even if active syncing only occurs when you use the Metro app. That is the whole point of Dropbox.
I can't wait for the app to be released. That is the main thing I am currently missing with my Surface. Unfortunately this SkyDrive hack won't work for me because I have 23GB of free storage through Dropbox and on SkyDrive you only get 7
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It was already officially announced that a Dropbox app is being developed for Windows RT and 8. Even if the app itself it metro only, obviously it will have the capability to sync your files, even if active syncing only occurs when you use the Metro app. That is the whole point of Dropbox.
I can't wait for the app to be released. That is the main thing I am currently missing with my Surface. Unfortunately this SkyDrive hack won't work for me because I have 23GB of free storage through Dropbox and on SkyDrive you only get 7
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It's not actually syncing the files, just giving you access to them, like the metro skydrive app. It's essentially equivalent to a glorified version of the website, since the files are not stored on your computer in any way until you access them.
phailyoor said:
It's not actually syncing the files, just giving you access to them, like the metro skydrive app. It's essentially equivalent to a glorified version of the website, since the files are not stored on your computer in any way until you access them.
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This is what I miss.
Even for SkyDrive, I would like to tell it what folders to sync and have them synced in the background or even manually, but it should sync all files in that folder and be available offline.
The desktop client for SkyDrive recently added selective sync but I wish it was available on Surface.
FWIW, even the Dropbox client on Android doesn't really sync automatically - however, you can mark some files as favorites and it will sync those when you use the app.