Bring back Shared Folders

It worked. It took large files. It was simple. My mother could user it. We
were happy.
Skydrive: 50mb filesm uploading in a separate page, file at a time,

Aaarrrgghhh!!!

Back to 8.5 until Shared Folders come back.

Rant over.

There is a another free tool from microsoft that does this far better than
the msn shared folders

its called live sync... you need to install a small program on both
computers and create shared folders...

http://sync.live.com

This was previously called foldershare

Note: I just tried to log in but they say they are in maintenance ... go
there in a couple of hours...

if you need any help post back

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"Gary" <> wrote in message
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> It worked. It took large files. It was simple. My mother could user it. We
> were happy.
> Skydrive: 50mb filesm uploading in a separate page, file at a time,
>
> Aaarrrgghhh!!!
>
> Back to 8.5 until Shared Folders come back.
>
> Rant over.
>

Thanks for the info.

Just had a play with LiveSync. Definitely more powerful, but still a pain
for a non-tech user.

If it integrated into Messenger so the same Sharing Folder behaviour was
built in then it would be useful, but as it stands it's just too much hassle
to use with non-technical friends and relatives.

Creating special sharing folders then giving permissions. Nope, not
convenient compared to just clicking one toolbar button and dragging files
into it with the Messenger interface you're already working in. Too easy to
accidentally give permissions to others that you shouldn't. With SF the
sharing security was built in due to each user having a unique folder.

So, back to 8.5 for now.

for a relative make accounts for them, let them log into with the utility
with info from that account,

then LOG IN from YOUR computer on the LIVE SYNC site and manager the
shares...


simple :-)


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"Gary" <> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the info.
>
> Just had a play with LiveSync. Definitely more powerful, but still a pain
> for a non-tech user.
>
> If it integrated into Messenger so the same Sharing Folder behaviour was
> built in then it would be useful, but as it stands it's just too much
> hassle
> to use with non-technical friends and relatives.
>
> Creating special sharing folders then giving permissions. Nope, not
> convenient compared to just clicking one toolbar button and dragging files
> into it with the Messenger interface you're already working in. Too easy
> to
> accidentally give permissions to others that you shouldn't. With SF the
> sharing security was built in due to each user having a unique folder.
>
> So, back to 8.5 for now.
>