Microsoft details Mesh to SkyDrive migration process
Windows Live Mesh will be retired by Microsoft on February 13, 2013 in favor of the company's SkyDrive cloud hosting and synchronization service. Microsoft has set up a support page for Mesh customers that informs them about the migration process to SkyDrive. The company notes that files synchronized with Mesh won't be available online anymore starting the date of retirement. The copies on the local system are unaffected by this for obvious reasons, and the first thing that Mesh users need to make sure of is that they have synced all files stored online with local systems to avoid losing access to these files in the migration process.
The company notes in an email sent out to all Mesh users entitled "The future of Windows Live Mesh" that 40% of Mesh users are already using SkyDrive actively.
Microsoft highlights how Mesh users can download files from the Devices website of the Mesh service instead of using the file synchronization software to do so.
The support page details how Mesh users can get started with SkyDrive:
- Download the SkyDrive desktop software
- Get a SkyDrive app for a mobile phone
- Use the SkyDrive.com website directly to access and upload files
SkyDrive may be in many aspects the better syncing solution as it is providing users with additional storage and support for mobile devices for instance. Mesh on the other hand supported the synchronization of any folder on the system much like Cubby does. This option is unfortunately not provided by SkyDrive at the time of writing. With SkyDrive, users get a root folder that will be synced automatically with the online storage. You need to place all files into the folder or use trickery in form of symbolic links to add folders from outside the directory structure to SkyDrive.
Mesh users also had access to a remote access feature which SkyDrive does not support in this way. Microsoft recommends to either use Remove Desktop Connection, a program built in to many recent versions of Windows, or Log Me In Pro, a software by the developers of Cubby.
What Microsoft failed to address on the support page was Mesh's Lan syncing feature which SkyDrive in this form is not offering as well. It is interesting to note that Cubby Pro is offering that feature as well in form of DirectSync.
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Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
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Why oh why?
Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?
Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
Special event by they is a special crap for us.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.