Comments on: Synchronize Your Home Computer Network With Windows Live Sync

By: Nachanga

Nachanga — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:11:46 +0000

Live Sync is amazing! Totally different that Live Mesh and Dropbox.
It doesn’t send files to remote servers. I don’t want my pesronal files to be in remote servers I don’t owe.
It’s fast! It uses P2P technology to transfer files between all synced computers. It compress data before sending to save bandwidth and transfer faster! It sends only changes you make to your files! It works in almost any situation, behind firewalls, tunnels, proxies, NATs. It just works!
I use it to have all my files synced between home desktop computer, 2nd home desktop computer, work laptop and work desktop computer. Never again I don’t have at home a file I created at work.
I use it to have backups for all the computers in my family. My father lives away and all his pictures are backed up in real time at my home computer. The same for my sister, her pictures are synced live to my home computer. If any computer dies, all the files are in the other computers!

Seriously, you cannot compare this to Live Mesh or DropBox (Dropbox only syncs one folder!). This is different product. And for me it’s an AMAZING piece of software!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:52:42 +0000

Another vote for Live Mesh, much better than Live Sync in my opinion.

By: Data Protection

Data Protection — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:48:09 +0000

Windows live sync is a useless program. Almost all the files on my home computer are private and personal. The same goes for my roommates. There is no reason any of us should have access to each othersâ€™ personal files. If occasionally we need to see information from one another we can send it in an email. We can zip large files to fit them in a single email. This works much better for us than sync’d files.

By: Grace

Grace — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:57:08 +0000

Wow. All of this seems to open up so many possibilities. My biggest concern, of course, is data privacy and data security, especially with Live Mesh. For instance, if I wanted to share files with clients or even family-related files that might have personal information. Maybe there’s no more of a privacy/security exposure risk with Mesh as with sending file attachments through any email system. But that just makes me want to rethink things even more.

I would be very interested to hear from allcarvedup or others who have security/encryption mechanisms to recommend, for Live Mesh and/or for any data that leaves my PC to go out over the net. Needless to say, I prefer freeware.

By: Joe Markus

Joe Markus — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:28:20 +0000

If you like this then you would also like Live Mesh as it syncs PCs and to the web (5GB limit on web)

By: Tim Watson

Tim Watson — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:49:50 +0000

As far as I know, you’ll still need an Internet connection, since you must be signed into Live.

By: dunlop

dunlop — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:20:56 +0000

After installation, would this work even if the computers are not connected to internet? I have laptops which are connected with wireless network (without internet). Would it work with them?

By: allcarvedup

allcarvedup — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:54:43 +0000

yes, I have heard issues with firefox…Just use IE. No biggie.

And by the way, I use this to sync my music between home and work. works great. (I have a few levels of security in place to protect all my files, but i digress)

to put it simply:

This just plain flat out works.

By: Monika

Monika — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:56:56 +0000

Nice article. Thanks for sharing.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:09:10 +0000

This wouldn’t work for me. I logged into my WL account, clicked on the sync.live link and could never get to the download page. All I got was the Terms of Use page over and over, even after I clicked “I accept” each time. I wonder if its a Firefox thing?