The Windows Live team has recently taken SkyDrive out of beta and released it officially. This service lets you sign up using a Live ID and gives you 5 GB of free space that you can use to store your files and share it with others - to specific friends or publicly. Overall sounds like a great idea. However, I find that SkyDrive has a number of glaring shortcomings:
- There is no option to sync files from my machine. This means that I cannot use SkyDrive as a place where I can keep important documents, edit them from another machine and have it sync back to my main machine automatically. I should have been able to say "Sync my Documents folder with the SkyDrive Documents folder every week" or something like that. The Windows Vista Sync Center should have been able to do this as well.
- I do not get WebDav or FTP access to my space. Which means that there is no way that I can access it without going into the Web site - not something that I'd always want to do - especially if I'm on a low speed or mobile phone Internet connection.
- The multi-file upload tool that gets installed is pretty useless as well - it cannot upload folders. So if I drop a folder called "Official" which in turn has tens of folders inside it, SkyDrive can't upload it. It expects me to actually create each (sub)folder manually and then upload files into each folder separately.
I guess till these features come up, I'm going to use SkyDrive only as a tool to dump files I want to share with others and don't want to email it to them.
PS. Yes, I know about FolderShare as well - but I have an even longer list of rants against that. :)
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