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Live Mesh is a free service from Microsoft that lets you synchronize your files and folders so that you can access them from anywhere. You can synchronize your folders across multiple computers, and access all of them anytime from web. Apart from this, Live Mesh also lets you remotely connect to any of your computer. You can access any program on your remote computer, and even access a file or folder that you have not marked for synchronization.
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Live Mesh is really a beautiful application. As I was reading through it, it seemed a lot like Dropbox. In the same manner as Dropbox, it can keep files and folders synchronized across multiple computers, and can also access them online. However, similarity ends here. On top of these features, Live Mesh adds some really cool features that basically make Dropbox like a thing of the past.
To start with, Live Mesh provides 5GB of free online space, as opposed to just 2GB of free space provided by Dropbox (or even Mozy). This itself makes it worth switching from Dropbox to Live Mesh (just to be fair to Dropbox – Dropbox lets you get more space for free if you refer some friends).
But more space is not just the only feature that interested my in Live Mesh. The killer feature that Live Mesh has is you can access your computers remotely. Basically, from any of your computer, you can access any other remote computer that you have made part of your Live Mesh. You can access any program, or file and folder on your remote computer, and work with them. Absolutely love this feature.
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Live Mesh lightens your burden and lets you synchronize your files so that you can access them from anywhere.And what more,you can even share them with your friends.All you have to do is install this software in your pc and there you go.
Live Mesh works on Windows, Mac, and even your cell phone. The remote access feature works on Windows only.
Here are some of the features of Live Mesh
- You can synchronize your files with all your devices
- You can even view your live desktop from the web which makes it easy for the users to access their files from their friend’s place even when they are not at home
- You can even invite members and manage them
- You can see to it that who all have access to the folders
- You can see news related to the folders and post comments on them
- You can chat with members through the messenger
- You can change the synchronization settings for the folders
- You can see the latest news through the notifier which lets you know what’s happening in your mesh
- It does not hinder while you are working and you can just click its icon and see the recent notifications
- It lets you know everything whether any folder has been changed or someone joined or left any folder and so on
- It lets you share your folders with your friends
- You can use any programs from the remote computer as well.You can copy and paste files between your local and remote pc
- You can sync and share folders between your pc and your mac by adding mac to your mesh
- You can access it from your mobile phone also if it has a web access
This is what you were looking for. Its a wonderful utility which keeps you more organized and lets you sync and share your folders between two devices and allows you to access it from anywhere. Live Mesh gives you 5B of online space completely free. I absolutely love this service. If you just need free online storage space, you are better off with GoAruna, or ADrive.
Bye Bye Dropbox!
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Hey there, I’m Spencer. I work for a company named Syncables, and after reading through this, I think you might want to check us out. We make a localized syncing software that I’ve found makes a great compliment to Live Mesh and dropbox. Our client is cross-platform, and it lets you keep your files, contacts and email synced between your computers over your home or office network, which is great for when you can’t get an internet connection but still need to transfer things between your machines. Additionally, Syncables includes a media component, which allows you to upload your media to any phone or usb drive.
Anyway, come check us out sometime at http://www.syncables.com!
@Syncables: Thanks for dropping by. Syncables indeed looks good, but it does not have any free version. Do you plan to launch a Free Lite version of Syncables in future?
Don’t bother with that Spencer, he’s spamming his site, I’ve seen this exact same reply on other blogs.
The problem with Live Mesh is that it doesn’t have Delta syncing, every little change requires a complete file reupload. Example: when you’re storing a truecrypt 100MB file in you Live Mesh space and you update one little text file in it you’re going to reupload the entire 100MB.
Dropbox supports Delta syncing and thus uploads only the changes.
@Rick: That explains it – I have been using Live Mesh now instead of Dropbox, and experience slowed down computer when it is syncing.
The optimum solution is to use both Dropbox and Live Mesh. I’ve moved the My Documents folder and other folders that are modified daily to Dropbox. And then I use Live Mesh for my read-only files such as ebooks, manuals and software files.
@ricky: That’s a pretty good idea ricky. I will give that a shot. However, I noticed that my Live Mesh was slow in the beginning, but now it is as fast as Dropbox. I believe initial slowness was just because of the fact that it was trying to upload more than a gig of data.
Regarding remote connection, it seems like that feature is redundant with Remote Desktop? It would be good for Windows versions that do not support RD hosts though, like the non-Professional editions. Also, I’m surprised that you do not cover RDP in your “5 Free Software to Connect Remotely…” article since it comes with most versions of Windows. Another tip is to use Wake On Lan to avoid having to always leave the computer on for remoting purposes…takes some configuring to use though…haven’t gotten it to work yet personally.
@J: You have made a very good point. I use RDP at work, and absolutely love it. But as you said, it is not available with all versions, so left it out. I am not aware about Wake On Lan.. could you elaborate.
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