Inside SkyDrive - All Comments

jimh12345 — Fri, 24 May 2013 06:10:00 GMT

Sorry to say I lost interest in Skydrive after it became clear it would remain limited to syncing only the contents of the single Skydrive folder. I have a lot of content needing backup, and it can't all be moved to reside in the Skydrive folder.

I don't need 'sharing'. I need backup, and currently I get it from Amazon S3.

Has anything changed on this? Should I just quit asking, and forget about Skydrive as a backup solution?

jamiet — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:02:46 GMT

Hi guys,

I notice that within "All photos" there is the option to select multiple photos and use the "Move to" feature to move them en masse. however, I'd also like a "copy to" option as well - that way photos will stay in my "Skydrive camera roll" and also get copied to where ever I need them.

thanks

Jamie

simons_cat — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:21:53 GMT

As per suges comment please advertise that skydrive displays raw files.

You should make a big deal out of this as only you and Google Drive have this feature - no other online storage service does this yet.

Sarah Filman — Wed, 15 May 2013 05:41:03 GMT

[mention:ea653b9b2ca2453aafd8bee9b549889c:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] We actually do have PDF viewing in the browser. Prior to this update, you had to have a browser plugin, but we now support viewing PDFs in the Word Web App, so it's accessible to all users regardless of browser and/or plugin availability.

[mention:87fb71e9b48e4b86ac27acc11c8606a6:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] Excel Surveys have been available world-wide for a couple of months -- are you or people you know running into issues accessing them outside of the US?

Thanks!

Sarah

hometoy — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:30:52 GMT

Oh, actually there are some things I would love to have fixed in SkyDrive. Like enable drag-and-drop using IE9! In order to do this on the Windows Server 2008 R2 I have to use Firefox or Chrome. It is just plain sad that Microsoft SkyDrive works better in non-Microsoft browsers!

Heck, even the nice animated bing pictures are not animated in IE (maybe 10, but not prior). This is sad because there have been animated pictures for months before IE 10 came out for Windows 7. Heck, even before Windows 8 came out and IE 9 was the "latest and greatest".

SkyDrive NEEDS to have IE get fixed, otherwise it will continue to be a slap in the face having Microsoft rely on their competitors to take advantage of Microsoft's product offering.

gcoupe — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:09:36 GMT

PLEASE - make it possible to display, and search, Descriptive Tags!

danielgr — Tue, 14 May 2013 05:43:19 GMT

As others have said, this IS a great update, specially for the desktop client (because now, at least in Japan, it's simply too slow for real-time work, and I have 1GB fiber at home).

As for the rest, looks terrific, specially for the skydrive camera roll.

Now if only:

- WP7 users were given the "full-res auto upload"; why not Omar?

- Microsoft was to launch WP8 in Japan; why not Microsoft/Makers/Carriers?

abm — Tue, 14 May 2013 05:17:24 GMT

In addition to Ronald comments, please consider syncing file attributes especially hidden flag with file contents. (answers.microsoft.com/.../40696d1e-9ee0-47fd-ab01-6bf3a26357d1)

Why can't people outside US get excel surveys on SkyDrive.com?

If you guys want to be ahead of all services out there, allow us to do P2P sharing (ensuring MSFT servers would not be involved for the sharing of the files which are marked for P2P share) and let the developers run TFS (CVCS) & GIT (DVCS) on P2P & non-P2P repositories. You can imagine how many people shall embrace SkyDrive by implementing this application! After all its 2013 and its not a rocket science for companies like MSFT to make it happen (unless you are waiting for your competitors to take the lead again...))))

jader3rd — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:33:33 GMT

Are comments going to stay on the picture they were added to?

Don Reba — Tue, 14 May 2013 01:13:16 GMT

Could you PLEASE quit re-encoding my PNGs as terrible quality JPGs? They look awful and are still larger than the originals.

pedrool — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:57:07 GMT

Looks great!

One issue though: there's still no very obvious way to get from the film strip view (as shown above) back to the file screen. My mom has called me twice trying to figure this out, and she's right that it's unclear and there's not even an option on screen in the current version, so I just tell her to hit the ESC key.

I see that a "return to all photos" is now present in the new version, but still pretty hard to find. You really should put this blue link in the upper left area, since the whole right side is very very busy with text, and that crucial navigation option can get lost. Or how about aligning with the windows 8 experience and put a big Back arrow in the upper left?

Jusste — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:53:15 GMT

I still think the best ever implementation of photos on a timeline was Microsoft's own KinStudio site. That thing was beautiful.

hometoy — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:30:52 GMT

Nice to see updates still coming through. Speed for uploading is always a nice feature to have. Some features I would like to see and would use are

Folder upload through the browser

View PDF files in the browser

Mile image editing capabilities (even if just rotate, crop and redeye)

Sync-over-LAN (as is available with Dropbox)

Ability to play music and video in the browser (a music player app?)

Easy attachment to emails

Easy save-to-Skydrive of email attachments

Some of the features I like is the keyboard integration and thumbnail view of pictures. I look forward to seeing the thumbnails of files.

I use a combination of SkyDrive, Dropbox and Ubuntu One (among many others that I try but not use on a daily basis) as SkyDrive only works for me with Windows, Ubuntu One only works with Ubuntu Linux and Dropbox works cross-platform and cross-distributions but is very limited in space (2GB vs 25GB w/SkyDrive).

Keep up the good work! Better to see any improvements than nothing!

afithk — Mon, 13 May 2013 22:51:58 GMT

@ademas : You mean, like this? idwinphone.com/resolusi-maksimal-backup-foto-dan-video-di-skydrive

casaout — Mon, 13 May 2013 22:43:41 GMT

Thanks for the constant updates of Skydrive. I really love Skydrive but unfortunately had to stop using it (ditched it for DropBox) because the Skydrive desktop app was very slow, unreliable and demanded about 3-4 more power/performance than DropBox. This is bad on a laptop where the uploads should be fast & reliable (in case the laptop breaks) and use only few power (as it drains the battery). I am unhappy with my current solution (using Dropbox) as the sync between the Laptop, Lumia 920 and Surface is a lot more painful (but, again, more reliable and uses less performance). Please update the desktop client. Thank you!