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You are here: Home / Tech / Skydrive updated – Selective sync coming soon

Skydrive updated – Selective sync coming soon

August 15, 2012 by Paul Spoerry 2 Comments

Microsoft has updated SkyDrive bringing the UI into alignment with their forthcoming products by giving it the modern Metro-style design. They’ve also added a bunch of new features, an Android dedicated app is on the way, and they’ve said that selective sync (aka choosing what folders you want to sync) will be a feature coming soon.

Skydrive select folders to sync

 

The new Skydrive UI give the web app a tile-based layout for files and folders. Along with the redesign comes support for dragging-and-dropping multiple files. A new “contextual toolbar” will make working online easier and the new instant search will help you keep track of all your files. For example, creating folders and docs, sharing, and common file operations are more easily available. Like Windows, you can save your preference for arranging files by date created, modified, or saved on a folder-by-folder basis.

The Skydrive team also announced that an Android app is coming “in just a few weeks.” The Android application should bring parity with its Windows Phone and iOS counterparts for accessing files on the go.

Desktop SkyDrive apps are also faster and more efficient now, especially when it comes to bulk photo uploading and syncing recent changed files. For a visual example of the performance improvement, take a look at the following charts. And remember that actual performance does depend on a number of factors and everyone’s setup is different.

choose folders for sync skydrive

 

The best news in my opinion was that the Skydrive team announced that Microsoft has “heard feedback about the ability to choose what files you sync” and that we should “stay tuned”. So… selective sync is on the table. Personally, the ability to select certain folders, as opposed to dumping all the files in one “Skydrive folder” is THE feature most lacking in all the online backup services. If Microsoft beats the competition to the punch (Dropbox, GDrive, etc) they’ll be a very attractive online backup and sync solution.

Get the full scoop at Inside Skydrive over at SkyDrive Windows Blog

Filed Under: Tech, Web Life Tagged With: Android, selective, skydrive, skydrive+user+interface+examples, sync

About Paul Spoerry

I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

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I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

Comments

  1. Andrew Faust says

    August 26, 2012 at 7:10 pm

    SkyDrive can’t beat Dropbox to the punch with selective sync. DropBox has had this feature for months at least.

  2. Radityo Pratomo says

    October 24, 2012 at 4:03 am

    i posted on my blog an alternative for skydrive selective sync. link below

    http://raddie.blogspot.de/2012/10/skydrive-selective-sync-alternative.html

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