SKYDRIVE, Jesus it shouldnt be this hard

[TheSiege]

I have 200GB of space, I just want to upload my photos, I dont want to move them. I have about 64GB worth and they are in various folders on my server. Is there anyway to upload how google drive does? Or do I need to physically move them to the "OneDrive" folder?

 

[notposting]

ONEDRIVE still hasn't caught up to what it left behind when they dumped Live Mesh. It allowed local device sync (sync on your own LAN), random folders, remote desktop from the web, etc etc.

Microsoft. Two steps forward, one step back, one step forward, two steps back. :/

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

You might be able to upload via the web UI and, if you're using 8.1, simply mark the files as "Online Only" so they don't download to your OneDrive folder.

 

[baydude]

I was going to start a new topic about the same thing and wanted to make sure I understood this correctly..

So if my OneDrive folder is in c: \onedrive and when I copy my music folder from drive D, it is duplicating my files on my local c: drive AND my OneDrive cloud storage space??

Can't I just drop them in the OneDrive cloud space and not have it sync to my local hard drive as well?

 

[G73S]

That is the reason I disable SkyeDrive completely the moment I install Windows 8.1

It's the most unreliable cloud app I've seen. Dropbox FTW

 

[GeekNick]

I don't see a problem here. SkyDrive's folder has all the files in it synced with the cloud. What's unreliable here? Move what you need there. That's all. Or upload everything to the cloud directly and don't use the windows app folder.

 

[baydude]

I don't see a problem here. SkyDrive's folder has all the files in it synced with the cloud. What's unreliable here? Move what you need there. That's all. Or upload everything to the cloud directly and don't use the windows app folder.

1) OneDrive local folder creates redundancy and wastes local storage space. Imagine backing up 100gb. Having the same 100gb duplicated on your hard disk twice.

2) Uploading via the Web app does not allow you to upload entire folders. When you have hundreds of files/subfolders, this is a hassle.


Anyone know if Dropbox or Box can upload entire folders w/o syncing to your own local HD?

 

[Morbus]

I once tried Skydrive.

It was awful. But mostly the web interface was awful. The rest was just confusing, which is to be expected of new software that just does one thing...
Oh, wait.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I've not looked at the spec on these....but I'm guessing they're all based on webDAV.

The problem here is what customized security layers they put over the original webDAV spec to scale and integrate with everything. I've seen more complaints about these cloud tecnologies than anything. What's crazy is how old the concept is and how poorly everyone's implemented the technology. Google is doing it right with the local folder sync....having more controls on file deletions is important too. (to be able to provide proper archive of files instead of simply mirroring or rsync'ing files.

Check this product that runs on Linux made by Novell: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ifolder/

It was originally offered on Netware 6 and as it was based on Apache Server, it was eventually repackaged for SuSE after Novell acquired them. It's free and if you have the server space works pretty good.