However, I will miss Mesh. I wasn’t asked to un-install it, as part of the upgrade, but I can see it coming (no I have no details here, speculation only)
Mesh had this ability to sync *any* folder to the cloud, which is now gone from this version of SkyDrive. Apparently all the DropBox fans have forced the hand on this one. Fortunately, on Windows (and I’m sure this works on a MAC too, but I can’t test it, any mac fans post how to do it in the comments and I’ll add it to the post) you can create links to folders to have things sync to your SkyDrive that aren’t actually in your SkyDrive folder!
To do this you’ll need to bust out the ol’ Command prompt, in Administrator mode, because a symbolic link just isn’t enough for SkyDrive to pick it up, you need a hard link.
- Click Start, and type in CMD, right-click on the cmd.exe and choose Run as Administrator
- Change to your SkyDrive folder, mine is c:\users\<username>\skydrive (so cd /d c:\users\seanda\skydrive)
- Next we’re going to make a link to a directory that lives in My Documents Folder, I’m going to do that with this command to sync my “tools” directory: mklink /j “Tools” “c:\users\seanda\documents\tools”. You’ll get a line that says "Junction created for Tools <==> c:\users\seanda\documents\tools.
You’ll notice a new tools directory being created, and it looks exactly the same as the other directory (contents and all, you didn’t need to copy anything in). Now you can simply drop stuff in your c:\users\seanda\documents\tools directory, and SkyDrive will pick it up. (You might need to restart the SkyDrive system tray app for it to pick this directory up, although I didn’t.)
Additionally, if you’re trying to get this to sync between two computers, you’ll have to set up the Junction before SkyDrive can drop files in there (meaning create the folder locations manually with the junction in place. I only use the one computer, so I didn’t test this.
