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Can anyone help me confirm my thoughts on Skydrive and my proposal to use it effectively (as I have inherited 300gb Skydrive not currently being used). It appears to me to be somewhat different to dropbox etc (which I also have limited experience using).
Basically my intention is to replace my Libraries on my Desktop Win 8 Pro (not 8.1) PC (My Pictures, My Documents, My Music etc) to being something that when I add files/take away (delete) and make changes they would be mirrored in Skydrive Cloud (this possible?).
I have skydrive (explorer) on my desktop or rather C:\Users\Bruce\SkyDrive (i see the little cloud icon in system tray etc).
If I were to use those folders contained within Skydrive Explorer (Documents/Pictures/Public, currently empty) then what seems to happen is that data thrown in their actually resides on the C: as well as getting synced to Skydrive, that right? (thereby doubling up if the contents are also elsewhere). It's like MS way of saying 'we've created a special place whereby data put here on the hdd will be synced to the cloud, rather than for example allowing users to right click various folders on the PC and giving the option to 'send to the cloud'...
So... seeing as my C: is actually just a 128gb SSD intended for programs only, I need to relocate my Skydrive folders to being not on C: but instead on my other hdds connected to the pc (where there is larger volumes of space free).
My current Libraries are actually all on other hdds, or rather the Library location is still C: but the folders such as Documents, Music and Pictures etc contained within the libraries are pointing to elsewhere (D: and E: etc).
Or have i got this completely wrong?
Cheers,
Bruce
Basically my intention is to replace my Libraries on my Desktop Win 8 Pro (not 8.1) PC (My Pictures, My Documents, My Music etc) to being something that when I add files/take away (delete) and make changes they would be mirrored in Skydrive Cloud (this possible?).
I have skydrive (explorer) on my desktop or rather C:\Users\Bruce\SkyDrive (i see the little cloud icon in system tray etc).
If I were to use those folders contained within Skydrive Explorer (Documents/Pictures/Public, currently empty) then what seems to happen is that data thrown in their actually resides on the C: as well as getting synced to Skydrive, that right? (thereby doubling up if the contents are also elsewhere). It's like MS way of saying 'we've created a special place whereby data put here on the hdd will be synced to the cloud, rather than for example allowing users to right click various folders on the PC and giving the option to 'send to the cloud'...
So... seeing as my C: is actually just a 128gb SSD intended for programs only, I need to relocate my Skydrive folders to being not on C: but instead on my other hdds connected to the pc (where there is larger volumes of space free).
My current Libraries are actually all on other hdds, or rather the Library location is still C: but the folders such as Documents, Music and Pictures etc contained within the libraries are pointing to elsewhere (D: and E: etc).
- It appears to me that what I should be doing is effectively killing off the idea of my current Libraries (not being dumb to delete actual data) and instead use Libraries and everything within the Library pointing to Skydrive Folders exclusively. If I understand correctly the Skydrive Folders in Explorer, they are actually ON the HDD (wherever u choose \Users\Bruce\SkyDrive location/drive to be) as well as being THE ONLY place that will sync with skydrive in the cloud. At the moment there is no current way to right click a random folder in explorer and say “Sync this with the Skydrive cloud etc, so u have to work with what yer given and that is the C:\Users\Bruce\SkyDrive folders (default location of course). Once you place data in that location the hdd (C: in this case) seems to fill up AND the cloud begins to sync. But should u not have internet connection, u can still mess around with files in this location, they will just sync with Skydrive next time internet connection is reestablished, bascially using and accessing these files in an offline manner is fine.
Is this right?
Basically I’m hoping that when I add a new picture from my camera (for example), and then copy it to Library>My Pictures, it will now be also stored in Skydrive cloud as well because ‘My Pictures’ will no longer be D:\Users\Bruce but D:\Users\Bruce\SkyDrive\Pictures etc. (because I will have also changed the location of the Skydrive folders from C: > D: see step 2)
- rename location of Skydrive, take it off C:\Users\Bruce\SkyDrive and put on D:\Users\Bruce\SkyDrive (as I have only 30gb space left on C: but over 500gb on D: etc)
- Copy my data that exists already on my hdd (My Pictures, My Music etc) into D:\Users\Bruce\SkyDrive appropriate folders (thereby currently doubling up on data temporarily). Create NEW folders in that Skydrive Explorer location (such as Music).
- Check that the data is also syncing to Skydrive
- Delete the current folder locations for current Libraries D:\Users\Eddy and now point ONLY to (add/include folder) D:\Users\Bruce\SkyDrive folders in the Libraries.
- Delete the old data that’s in D:\Users\Eddy as I now have that data in the skydrive folders on D: as well as Skydrive cloud?
This sound about right?
Or have i got this completely wrong?
Cheers,
Bruce
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