Comments on: First impressions of Live Mesh – wow!

By: remote desktop software

remote desktop software — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:21:49 +0000

Nick,
I love dropbox too. The best part is that it allows multiple editors, like Google Docs, but for more formats. It makes passing drafts between editors and coworkers much easier.

By: Live Mesh – the key to the cloud? | PC Pro blog

Live Mesh – the key to the cloud? | PC Pro blog — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:30:17 +0000

[...] a year ago I wrote a piece about my initial experiences and first impressions of Microsoft Live Mesh. Essentially I was a huge fan and remain so. In fact I’m now even more excited about the [...]

By: GartGrout

GartGrout — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:14:14 +0000

[...] ions – if a file is open remotely you can simply log in to shut it down. Come to that, you c... ...

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:20:38 +0000

I use – and love – dropbox. I put all my current writing in there and get version control, automatic backup off site, and the latest version ready to edit wherever I am at work or at home.

No more carrying a pen drive around, no more not know which has the latest bits in it, just simple easy backup. If they charged for it I’d pay quite happily.

By: technogeist

technogeist — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:04:52 +0000

Something I’ve always disliked is the fact that when you copy a file from one volume to another it resets the file creation date. These days I create all files with the date in front of the filename like this 20081110-2030-foobar.txt.

Also the summary page that was introduced in Windows 2000, never seemed to get the attention it deserved. Windows Backup never saved the metadata unless you remembered to tick the right boxes. It would have been nice to access the summary data from scripts.

By: Tom Arah

Tom Arah — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:37:23 +0000

It did occur to me that an excellent way of extending the system would be to use the Live Desktop for storing backups of files so that you’d get extra security and versioning built in but without complicating things on your working systems.

By: technogeist

technogeist — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:55:50 +0000

For those old enough to remember. Just cast your minds back to 1996. This appears to be an updated ‘Desktop Briefcase’ introduced in Win95/NT4. That caused similar issues to what you’re describing today. It was a headache trying to remember which copy was the most recent, and far too often, I’d delete the wrong one.

Progress eh?

As for handling open files. It baffles me why they haven’t implemented some kind of shadow copy like windows backup. Auto-saves at regular intervals can’t be that hard to implement, even OpenOffice does that for you without prompting.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:43:11 +0000

sounds really good, but in the hands or some, it means that there is no hope of personal data held in government or corporate files to ever be safe again.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:31:00 +0000

I have read some reviews of Mesh at http://www.BackupReview.info

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:37:50 +0000

As I understand it the 5GB limit only applies to folders and files which are synced to your Live Desktop. You can sync directly between devices (desktop and laptop in my case) via peer-to-peer, bypassing the Live Desktop and sidestepping the 5GB limit in the process.

Of course you don’t get to access files and folders from a third party machine on the Live Desktop but if you have a need for more than 5GB of storage this works quite neatly and, most importantly, seamlessly and without effort.