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.Chris wrote on March 7, 2009, 2:52am

mmmm I see this be the replacement for Briefcase


+1

pmbAustin wrote on March 7, 2009, 3:19am

Skydrive is a really great idea, but it really needs to be easier to use, and more integrated with Windows itself (as well as with Windows Live applications). Using it needs to be more transparent, and having friends access files there needs to be easier (even for friends who don't use Windows). This would be a good start!

+1

DavidTaraso wrote on March 7, 2009, 8:48am

Never going to happen thanks to the EU.

DavidTaraso wrote on March 7, 2009, 10:01pm

Actually, what am I saying? As an integrated feature, never going to happen. But as a download... this would be great.

Thomas wrote on March 8, 2009, 3:17pm

I've wanted this for so long now... None of those crappy third-party alternatives work properly either. :-(

jamiet wrote on March 8, 2009, 4:31pm

Absolutely. I think the best experience would be the ability to add SkyDrive as a mapped drive.

P.S. Isn't there a 3rd party add-on that does this already?

gregsedwards wrote on March 9, 2009, 3:35pm

I blogged about my idea for this a while back See http://tinyurl.com/7hfxwp for my thoughts.

sagum wrote on March 9, 2009, 8:44pm

If microsoft wanted to support this via 'Add a network place' in XP/Vista in 'My network places.. it could be via a custom URI there, or even attach a 'Web Share' to skydrive's backend..

That would work for me, I oftern use FTP sites in that way.. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bininside/tutorials/explorerftp/ for an example of use if anyone hasn't seen its built in fuction already.

mjflynt wrote on March 10, 2009, 11:26pm

http://tinyurl.com/7jo6uz

This is probably just a screen scraper which is why they don't tend to work well. The API is not public yet. I hope it someday is.

mjflynt wrote on March 10, 2009, 11:29pm

People have been working for/wanting this for ages back when Folder (I think thats what it was called before SkyDrive) was like only 5 megs in size. I'm sure MS knows we want it, but nothing says we can't be a squeeky wheel.

.Chris wrote on March 11, 2009, 1:14am

Microsoft is known to do this sort of shit. Hopefully wave 4 will be promising..

Kojacked wrote on March 12, 2009, 4:28am

If they integrate Mesh with Skydrive they would have this feature plus sync. I hope that's the route they are going.

gregsedwards wrote on March 12, 2009, 2:22pm

I can confim that Gladinet works like a charm with the latest incarnation of SkyDrive.

FremyCompany wrote on April 7, 2009, 3:48pm

I really would like to have this feature !

semtido wrote on April 23, 2009, 12:06am

Great Idea. Just perfect really.

col-lucy wrote on May 2, 2009, 6:50pm

Great idea. I really want my explorer & applications to have access to all my storage resources. The web access, while nice, is a still a barrier to real usability.

Lundtoft wrote on May 21, 2009, 5:52pm

You can use http://www.gladinet.com/ to solve this problem, it works great.

aldo wrote on August 29, 2009, 8:16am

As Lundtoft said, you can use something else to solve the problem, but SkyDrive shouldn't need anything extra to make it work, so +1.

fork wrote on October 23, 2009, 7:50pm

I've found wonderful shell extension that provides all SkyDrive functionality within Win Explorer!

fork wrote on October 28, 2009, 8:43pm

i forgot to mention url: http://skydriveexplorer.com

em7 wrote on December 25, 2009, 12:44pm

I would advice against using SkyDrive Explorer.
Why? Simply because it's a piece of trash!
Has lots of bugs, has broken functionality and the lame thing about it is that it's not even in a beta stage... they actually call it final!

Lundtoft, is spot on, on the other hand!

bernard wrote on February 19, 2010, 10:29am

It's happening. Skydrive, Mesh, and Sync will all be integrated; they're announcing it at MIX10, according to Ray Ozzie. Mesh as a brand is going away, but its functionality will be assimilated into Skydrive (replacing Live Desktop) and Sync (replacing the Mesh client).

SomethingElse wrote on March 28, 2010, 3:49pm

I agree with Kojacked

cg3_12 wrote on March 28, 2010, 5:33pm

go to this website, get the FREE version, and it adds windows skydrive to your computer network

http://www.cloudstorageexplorer.com/