Solved Skydrive has not folders ?

[darkhorse]

Hi.
I have installed this:

SkyDriveSimpleViewer-1.0

When I want to access the SkyDrive, at get this info:

"You have 0 folders in SkyDrive"

I have made folders in SkyDrive according to the dump here.

Why am I told this ?

 

[roncerr]

Is your LiveID of the type "@msn.com"? I believe it only works for "@hotmail.com".

 

[kado897]

Try this method of accessing SkyDrive instead. http://www.sevenforums.com/1564296-post10.html

 

[darkhorse]

I had another email, but now I made a hotmail account.
I still get the same info.
Please look at the attachments.

 

[roncerr]

Try this method of accessing SkyDrive instead. http://www.sevenforums.com/1564296-post10.html

That method says to map a network drive using this as the location: \\docs.live.net@SSL\yourcid .
I substituted my LiveID for "yourcid" but just got an error message:

 

[roncerr]

I tried this instead: How-To Map Skydrive Using A URL Address which says "Once you’ve logged in the URL in the address bar should change to a cid-######.skydrive.live.com format. Copy the # part after cid-." But it doesn't. The address is of this format: https://skydrive.live.com/?lc=<4digits>

 

[kado897]

I really don't know. It works for me.

 

[roncerr]

...It works for me.

The page you linked to says:
"Just need to map the following, nothing else is needed. \\docs.live.net@SSL\yourcid\Documents or Public, Music, Pictures etc. at the end or just "yourcid" at end so you can see all the folders from Windows Explorer/My Computer w[FONT=&quot]ithout the need for Skydrive viewer or WebDav[/FONT]."

How do we obtain the "yourcid" number? (I don't see it in the url when I log in at the skydrive website.)

 

[kado897]

...It works for me.

The page you linked to says:
"Just need to map the following, nothing else is needed.
\\docs.live.net@SSL\yourcid\Documents or Public, Music, Pictures etc. at the end or just "yourcid" at end so you can see all the folders from Windows Explorer/My Computer w[FONT=&quot]ithout the need for Skydrive viewer or WebDav[/FONT]."

How do we obtain the "yourcid" number?

Go into SkyDrive, right click on My Files and copy the link address. Paste it into Notepad and its the bit following #cid=. Don't include the #cid=

 

[darkhorse]

I forgot to right click on folders.
After it worked just fine.
Many thanks for the great help

 

[kado897]

You are welcome darkhorse.

 

[roncerr]

Go into SkyDrive, right click on My Files and copy the link address. Paste it into Notepad and its the bit following #cid=. Don't include the #cid=

Thanks! (I found I had to left click on one of the website folders in the browser to make the 16 character cid appear in the url.)

 

[kado897]

Ah yes. I'm using a Chrome App these days and don't have the address bar displayed. I actually stopped using the explorer method a while ago because it took some time to connect at startup and locked up My Computer until it did.

 

[roncerr]

Ah yes. I'm using a Chrome App these days and don't have the address bar displayed. I actually stopped using the explorer method a while ago because it took some time to connect at startup and locked up My Computer until it did.

Speaking of uploading, files I put there a long time ago are still there but the "add files" button doesn't do anything now. So I tried the new Explorer interface and found I could upload a 1KB file but a 49KB file gives the error: "The file <filename> is too large for the destination file system." It says I have 25GB availlable! (I doubt if the my filenames contain too many characters since they are fairly short.)

 

[kado897]

The add files link opens a standard Windows dialogue for me but you can also drag files into the open folder to upload. I uploaded 10MB in 4 photos yesterday using this method. I am not aware of any size limit on the explorer approach except perhaps the windows path length limit.