Syncing New Skydrive from within Explorer

You are not missing anything.

The present SkyDrive, althouh an order of magnitude improvement over the previous, still leaves much to be desired.

You still have your copy on your harddrive, inconveniently located in a folder named SkyDrive. A concept that ignores all of the power of redirect points. That info gets kept on a Microsoft server farm, called SkyDrive. When you update a file in your SkyDrive folder, then the info gets automatically updated on the MS server farm.

You can access the server farm from anywhere, just as you can access info stored on google servers with Google Drive/cloud/docs (there naming conventions and concepts are undergoing metamorphosis).

SkyDrive is a step, but only a step, in helping you be able to access your files on their servers rather than on you own server(s).

If you design the structure of your SkyDrive folders well you can include them in the appropriate Win 7 libraries. I have a skydrive folder in my documents library, two in my pictures library. one for Photos and the other for Wallpapers. Plus I have a books library that has a SkyDrive folder for any books I have sync'd and two in my Programming library, one for VB .NET books and the other for C# books.

Oh and I shifted the sync'd SkyDrive folder onto an external drive to stop it cluttering up my OS drive.

folders can be dropped on to the skydrive folder from anywhere.

The SkyDrive concept needs to be fully integrated. MS has made improvements and many remain.

gregrocker said:

karlsnooks said:

You still have your copy on your harddrive, inconveniently located in a folder named SkyDrive.

This is the simple truth I was missing: once placed in Skydrive folder, it isn't committed only to the cloud but a copy remains on the HD.

Thanks. Any other perspectives?

And on any other devices that are sync'd.

gregrocker said:

Kado, how are you able to have Skydrive folders in the various User folders? Are these labeled Skydrive like the standard one?

I wonder why we can't rightclick and add file/folder to Skydrive like we can Library.

Can libraries be involved somehow?

It is all in the folder structure you set up on SkyDrive. This is the structure I designed as shown after sync on the PC.



The second SkyDrive folder is the Sync point. This structure allows the various elements to be incorporated in libraries and appear as folders. The next shot shows my pictures library with two "SkyDrive" folders.



The pretty folder icons I created myself.

when you say you set up the folder structure ,do you mean on your skydrive online or on the pc,

In fact I already had some documents and pictures on SkyDrive but realized that the folder structure I had would not integrate very well into the library system I have on my PC so I made some initial changes to that on SkyDrive before I set up sync and then extended it on the PC end and let that sync up to SkyDrive because that was the quickest and easiest way to do it. You can easily add folders and move them around on your PC until you get what you want and just let them sync up.