Sky Drive Access


  1. Posts : 101
    Win7
       #1

    Sky Drive Access


    What software are people using to access Sky Drive? I found Gladinet Drive, but the free version was fairly slow.

    Thanks,
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  2. Posts : 1,241
    Windows 7 Profesional x86, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
       #2

    As far as I am aware gladinet is the best (and only) way of mounting your Skydrive as a network drive .

    In terms of speed; accessing something over the Internet like this is never fast, not even for payed solutions like iDisk (which I use). The only way to speed this up is to cache the entire drive loclly and have the files upload in the background which gives you fast access... but I don't think gladinet supports this.

    You get what you pay for .

    Oli
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  3. Posts : 101
    Win7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    I've used something like dropbox on my other systems and it works much faster, but it only has a 2GB allotted space for the free version.
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  4. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Professional
       #4

    osholt said:
    As far as I am aware gladinet is the best (and only) way of mounting your Skydrive as a network drive .

    In terms of speed; accessing something over the Internet like this is never fast, not even for payed solutions like iDisk (which I use). The only way to speed this up is to cache the entire drive loclly and have the files upload in the background which gives you fast access... but I don't think gladinet supports this.

    You get what you pay for .

    Oli

    How did you get iDisk installed on your Windows 7 box? I have Windows 7 Professional and when I attempt to install the iDisk utility, I get a message that iDisk needs access to my host file - and that's where it stops. I have Admin privileges on the system - but I'm lost.

    Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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  5. Posts : 152
    Windows 7 64
       #5

    I use SkyDrive Simple Viewer for WebDAV, makes it possible to mount Skydrive folders as drive letters, very handy.
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  6. Posts : 477
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit, Windows Developer Preview, Linux Mint 9 Gnome 32 Bit
       #6

    osholt said:
    As far as I am aware gladinet is the best (and only) way of mounting your Skydrive as a network drive .


    Oli
    Windows 7 Utilities: SkyDrive Explorer | Windows 7 News is another tool or mounting Skydrive on the Computer windows on Windows Explorer.

    They are slow because unlike mounted physical drives, they still try to access an Internet server to get into Skydrive and access your data. They would of course be slow if your connection is slow.

    I still upload my files manually to Skydrive by using a browser and I find it very handy.
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    Windows 7 Home Premium x64 OEM --> RTM clean install
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