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"SkyDrive is now the default location for saving documents. So you always have your files wherever you go, even when you’re offline. And with the included SkyDr
by tiles 13y ago
"SkyDrive is now the default location for saving documents. So you always have your files wherever you go, even when you’re offline. And with the included SkyDrive app, you can manage both local files and SkyDrive files in one place."
This is a massive play for cloud storage. Will this be replacing "My Documents" for the majority of casual Windows users?
- spoiler 13y agoAs someone who has ~20 kbps upload speed this news is very frustrating. :(
- ciniglio 13y agoIt should still work like a normal folder, even if you're offline, no?
- scholia 13y agoSure. You can save files locally (SkyDrive is not compulsory) or you can have SkyDrive automatically sync docs on all your PCs and/or Macs. But if you are creating documents online using the Office Web Apps in SkyDrive, then it would be very odd if the default storage was a local PC, tablet or phone. All these things are true today under Windows 7 and 8 as well as 8.1. If cloud storage is such a terrible idea, it seems odd that there is so much hype for Google Apps -- which apparently 100% of startups use -- and for Chromebooks and similar thin client operating systems.
- dangrossman 13y agoYou definitely don't have to let it waste your bandwidth if you don't want to use it. You can: a) Tell SkyDrive not to start on startup b) Remove that folder from syncing c) Tell SkyDrive not to sync on metered networks and set your home connection as a metered network d) Save documents to a different folder e) Uninstall SkyDrive
- Legion 13y agoThis is usually the point where someone comes and says: a) Install a FOSS OS instead At what point, I wonder, does that cease to be a snarky response? We are now apparently at the point where you have to jump through hoops to save your own files on your own computer. It's not Windows 8.1 that's bothering me so much as projecting what this path looks like in Windows 10.
- etfb 13y agoAt what point? Not sure. Some years ago now, I think. When did Vista launch?
- untog 13y agoOSes have always catered for the majority use case. A few years ago, no-one had the internet connection to do file syncing like this- and storage was too expensive anyway. Now both of those barriers have been removed and the OS is now taking advantage of these new capabilities. I really don't see what is wrong with that. Should all OSes remain frozen at a 2003 state of development?
- keithpeter 13y ago"Now both of those barriers have been removed" ...in some places in the world, but not others. Will MS change their defaults by territory does anyone know?
- yread 13y agoeh? These are possible options not every single one of them solves the "problem". You don't have to do all of them. Besides, Skydrive is a local folder with throttled upload. So you save immediately and it eventually ends up on the server. So it's not like you will have to wait until it uploads. On the other hand, you shouldn't upload anything illegal or even objectionable, Microsoft is looking (it probably has to) http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/court-records-microsoft-alerted-authorities-to-largo-mans-child-pornography/2123494 http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/court-record...
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- veidr 13y agoAnd it looks like it will be a massive annoyance for the user, kind of like how OS X now insists on showing me iCloud first every time I save a document, despite the fact that I have never stored any document in iCloud and have no intention of ever doing so.
- nixme 13y agoAnnoying, but `defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false`
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- veidr 13y agoYou are awesome, thank you. That worked great. :)
- soapdog 13y agothank you good sir!
- johnpowell 13y agoI want to hug you so hard right now.
- kenjackson 13y agoWhy an annoyance? For most users it will look and behave just like a normal folder.
- veidr 13y agoIt will be annoying if they do it like OS X, where they always default to that folder and give you no way to turn it off other than waiting for some kind soul on Hacker News to tell you the magic command line incantation. :) I mean, I assume that even if it behaves like a regular folder, unless the user actually wants to store the file on SkyDrive, then that folder would not be where they want to save the thing. I actually even store most document-y stuff on Dropbox, which made Apple's whole "iCloud? Wanna save that on iCloud? Put it in the iCloud? What, Dropbox, you sure you didn't mean iCloud? iCloud? Hey, try saving it in iCloud! Look, iCloud! Woah, by Dropbox, I think you meant iCloud, right? iCloud? iCloud?" behavior so annoying...
- wluu 13y agoFor Joe Average Windows user, I think this is a good move. For everyone else, I think we've probably already got our own system for online doc backups etc. I'm sure, like past Microsoft products, we can probably change the behaviour through a registry "hack"/modification if they don't have something a bit more configurable built in (ie: in Control Panel etc).