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1. tino

   
   Posted on: October 11, 2007 at 7:25PM  

   The biggest problem with SkyDrive is, that you get a icon view of your files with only 9 characters or so of the filename. The most important information in a file name is at the end of it and Windows Live SkyDrive cuts this away. You got different versions of a file? You can't see which one is the newest.

   Simply set the default view to a simple list view with longer file names and maybe with the upload/last modified date shown on the right.
2. Brandon LeBlanc

   

   
   Posted on: October 11, 2007 at 7:30PM  

   tino, great feedback for the SkyDrive Team. I'll make sure they get it. You should also let them know via their blog too.

   - Brandon
3. Islander

   
   Posted on: October 11, 2007 at 7:50PM  

   Looks really good, hopefully soon available in other countries too. I can't try it for now :(
4. newscientist2000

   
   Posted on: October 12, 2007 at 12:58AM  

   Great I love Skydrive, Ive been telling all my friends about it.

   The only things I dont like/understand are

   1.  That I dont get any Picture Preview of my *.mpg video files just a balloon default pic

   2. Oh and that Im a little confused about is that I am able to clearly secure my folders with hotmail users, however it seems like now I can add any email address such as yahoo or even a gmail email address and select that user as an editor/reader of a folder.

   Meaning that it looks as though I can share folders securely with those users, however it they follow my link, they still have to login to hotmail which means they cant view my shared folders without a hotmail account right?  Does this mean they would get access if they signed up for a hotmail account and added there gmail account as an alternative email address?

   Maybe a password protect folders option would be nice, so that you could share pics semi securely with users who dont have a live hotmail account ?

   Having said that I appreciate the extra space, I will add more photos soon.

   Oh and great news restarting the Office 2007 offer for Aussie students on the 15th, I jealous of that pricing.

   http://www.microsoft.com/australia/education/unistudentoffer/default.mspx
5. Brandon LeBlanc

   

   
   Posted on: October 12, 2007 at 1:11AM  

   newscientist2000,

   Just to clear up confusion - its not Hotmail they need to log in to. The way Windows Live works is that identities are controled through Windows Live ID. You log in to Hotmail with a Windows Live ID. You log in to Windows Live Spaces with a Windows Live ID. Windows Live ID is the successor/replacement to Passport.

   In regards to SkyDrive - the way SkyDrive secures folders through permissions is with Windows Live ID's. In order for your friends to see secured privately shared folders and add to them, they must log in with their own Windows Live ID.

   Does this make sense?

   I am planning on writing a post explaining this a little further.

   - Brandon
6. newscientist2000

   
   Posted on: October 12, 2007 at 1:30AM  

   Yes it makes sense, and isn't really that big of a deal for me as most of my family have hotmail accounts and thus a Live id.  That Im guessing was due to the success of hotmails viral marketing in the UK... except for my brother who will probably get a hotmail account soon, very soon as now his wife just had a baby and he needs to share pics ...  and stop using his wifes hotmail account for messaging.  She'll get mad soon enough and demand he get his own account.

   A password option though would be nice, even if it was randomly generated and available as a paid feature.  So people wouldnt have to sign up for a Live ID.
7. newscientist2000

   
   Posted on: October 12, 2007 at 1:52AM  

   Oh it would also be nice to have a slideshow button for pics in a folder.
8. vasu

   
   Posted on: October 12, 2007 at 4:01AM  

   @tino,

   But I can have more than 9characters as filename, and it shows all the characters as filename in SkyDrive. Try using IE , it'll upload an activeX control (for image preview and progress bar), and see if it make any changes, if you are not using IE.
9. tino

   
   Posted on: October 12, 2007 at 8:47AM  

   @vasu: I see, it's only in Firefox and does work in IE7 so maybe they can fix that. But I would prefer a list view with more information and smaller icons (= faster).
10. chakkaradeep

    
    Posted on: October 12, 2007 at 9:08AM  

    I already use my SkyDrive account and so far I can say its really good. Thanks to Microsoft for increasing the storage :)