After having a GS3 I went and tried a Lumia 920 with windows 8, although I liked the operating system and phone, after going through 4 of them since launch due to hardware failures I said no more and decided to trade up to a note2. One thing the Windows phone did I really liked was it had like a picture viewer that went through a folder on your skydrive account (like dropbox, but Microsoft branded) and would cycle through photo's in there. Is there a gadget similar for android that will look through a folder on my dropbox? I've found quite a few, but they all require you to individually select photo's which is annoying, or have the pictures all on a local folder to scan thgouh. Its much nicer to just throw the photo's you want in a folder on the dropbox and let it pick them up.
Any ideas?
Just download skydrive and your photos should show up if you link the folder to your SD card.
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dirtydroidx said:
Just download skydrive and your photos should show up if you link the folder to your SD card.
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I went ahead and switched back to dropbox since the skydrive has funny file name restrictions (no - or /)
So I can link my dropbox to a local folder on the SD card? I was unaware of that, i'll give it a try.
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Hi,
I remember from owning an IPhone having to synchronise my ewallet (a password manager) files over the air from the desktop whilst the app was running on the phone. (I'll admit it was a minor annoyance).
Having moved to android and using a combination of dropbox and keepass, I don't really think about anymore - I just open dropbox and click the file and keepass opens up.
But, what about WP7? I realise that apps are only permitted to use their own storage. If I were to build a say, a keepass app for WP7, would I be back to building some desktop client software that allow syncing over the air whilst the app was running (like IPhone/ewallet), or hooking into any number of online sync services like Dropbox, Box.net, Pogoplug, etc, just to get the file some place the app can reach it.
I'm having trouble thinking of any other option given the lack of any common storage.
Thanks
If you did develop Keepass for WP7, you'd have your first customer here!
I'm actually tempted to try and port it myself, and I've come to the same conclusion as you regarding storage. The local KDB file would need to held in private storage and synchronised to an off-device copy, be that a desktop app or something like drop box.
A keepass app is one of the things I was considering. Not so sure about it now.
I'll have a look round for an elegant solution.
Well, isn't Skydrive the same as Dropbox? As I understood WP7 uses Skydrive to store your files 'in the cloud'; so why not put your Keepass file there?
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Well, isn't Skydrive the same as Dropbox? As I understood WP7 uses Skydrive to store your files 'in the cloud'; so why not put your Keepass file there?
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I'd not considered skydrive/mesh. I'll 'ave a look.
Thanks for the heads-up.
I'm thinking of writing a desktop synching app myself. That way any WP7 app could connect to it to import files from a PC.
I've thought about using skydrive myself, but it doesn't seem to offer a way to download the file directly.
My problem was to copy a pdf-file to my phone and after some research, I figured out that the only way to do this, is to email me this file. I think this is pretty awkward and I found an easier way to do this.
If you have a dropbox-account just move the file to your dropbox-folder on your pc, then install a dropbox-client on your phone. now you can access every file that's in the dropbox-folder from your phone... problem solved
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Why not just use your free Skydrive? That's what I do, then navigate to your Skydrive on your phone (pin the link to your start screen for ease) and click the file's icon and it will download to your phone.
No need to use dropbox at all.
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Why not just use your free Skydrive? That's what I do, then navigate to your Skydrive on your phone (pin the link to your start screen for ease) and click the file's icon and it will download to your phone.
No need to use dropbox at all.
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I use dropbox too.
I think it easier because it has a Dropbox client for PC and WP7 (with app "Boxfiles for dropbox"), no need to create internet shortcut on my phone.
Why not Skydrive? Because it doesn't work half as well with either Windows or Windows Phone.
Unlike Dropbox, I can't just map my cloud storage to a folder easily on my PC.
And on my phone it doesn't let me download some files (funnily, Microsoft Office files). It shows presentations as web docs and there's no download link in default mobile view. I need to switch to desktop view which is unbearably slow.
This is plain ridiculous.
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Why not Skydrive? Because it doesn't work half as well with either Windows or Windows Phone.
Unlike Dropbox, I can't just map my cloud storage to a folder easily on my PC.
And on my phone it doesn't let me download some files (funnily, Microsoft Office files). It shows presentations as web docs and there's no download link in default mobile view. I need to switch to desktop view which is unbearably slow.
This is plain ridiculous.
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how does dropbox work with mp3s can u copy those over to device memory and add them to ur llibrary without syncing via zune?
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Why not Skydrive? Because it doesn't work half as well with either Windows or Windows Phone.
Unlike Dropbox, I can't just map my cloud storage to a folder easily on my PC.
And on my phone it doesn't let me download some files (funnily, Microsoft Office files). It shows presentations as web docs and there's no download link in default mobile view. I need to switch to desktop view which is unbearably slow.
This is plain ridiculous.
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this is being fixed in the mango update.
I don't transfer many files to my phone so its not an issue for me but I can see the frustration for some.
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Unlike Dropbox, I can't just map my cloud storage to a folder easily on my PC.
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http://mynetx.net/#!/2352/how-to-connect-your-skydrive-in-windows-explorer
or
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/7385/windows-7-how-to-map-skydrive-folders-as-network-drives/
or even
http://www.groovypost.com/howto/microsoft/windows-7-map-drive-skydrive-using-url-address-network/
There ya go, have fun.
I have videos on my dropbox, and BEFORE NoDo they worked, now they don't work.. tells me invalid format or times out (These would be WMV and 3GP) is it just me?
Where is the skydrive app or link on the phone.. cant find on my DVP.
At least things will get better with time. More premium apps are showing up in marketplace.
There's already a sticky thread for OS comparisons. Take this bickering, flaming, trolling there please
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Hey
I was trying to find a way to store some photos on skydrive that i didant want showing up on my phone (photos of my gf ) I could not seem to find an option within WP7 or on the skydrive site regarding permissions but i came up with a little trick. If you create a new folder on skydrive and place a picture in it, it automatically becomes a picture folder and is synced with WP7 with is rather annoying.
To get around this place the picture in the folder and then create a random word document in the same folder, click on the folder then click on information on the right hand drive of skydrive and change it to documents. Your folder will no longer appear in the pictures hub and you can still access from Office skydrive hub which will simply link you to the skydrive webpage. Hope some of you find this helpful.
Where is the link to the SkyDrive folder ?
Skydrive is not convenient at all.
When will there be a Skydrive app on WP7 ??? I wonder.
For the moment I'm staying with Dropbox + Kickbox
Anyway, thanks for this tip
SkyDrive is handled on WP7 via the Office Hub. Open that, and go to "Locations" and SkyDrive should be there (if you set up a Live account, of course). If not, you may need to add the URL to it. But it'll work. You can also pin it to your Start if you wish, for quicker access.
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I was trying to find a way to store some photos on skydrive that i didant want showing up on my phone (photos of my gf ) I could not seem to find an option within WP7 or on the skydrive site regarding permissions but i came up with a little trick. If you create a new folder on skydrive and place a picture in it, it automatically becomes a picture folder and is synced with WP7 with is rather annoying.
To get around this place the picture in the folder and then create a random word document in the same folder, click on the folder then click on information on the right hand drive of skydrive and change it to documents. Your folder will no longer appear in the pictures hub and you can still access from Office skydrive hub which will simply link you to the skydrive webpage. Hope some of you find this helpful.
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Aren't all pictures and documents you upload from your phone publicly viewable by default? Or does adding a document somehow make it available to you only?
Seems there's no way to change permissions via the WP7 Office hub.
I think wp7 ask u about your privacy choice when uploading to skydrive, can choose between anyone and only you...can also give permission to one contact especially...that's realy confortable.
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This isn't a direct method but better than having nothing. Also some of you might already be aware of something like this or an alternative but I didnt come across it so I'm posting it here.
1) First of all go to phone settings in the zune app and in 'Pictures and Videos' choose 'leave pictures and videos on phone after copying' and in image quality choose 'original'. You should also switch to 'manual' in 'sync options' for Pictures and Videos, so that files are not deleted from phone if you delete them from PC.
2) Once you've done this, your original photos will be sync'd to your computer in 'My Pictures/YourWPdevice' every time you connect your phone to pc and open zune.
3) Now you should have the skydrive/dropbox app installed on your pc (which I assume all of you already do). I think Skydrive automatically keeps your photos sync'd in the cloud so you shouldn't need to anything any more. However if skydrive isn't doing that, you can just copy your 'my photos' folder and place it in the skydrive folder.
4 (Optional but handy) If you don't like wasting space then you could create a junction link of 'My photos' folder in skydrive folder. That should save you a lot of space on your pc if you have lots of photos. To create a junction link, I recommend using Hard Link shell extension. It's fairly easy to use and comes in handy if you are using skydrive and don't want to copy/paste all folders you want to backup or you want to keep your existing folder structure.
Anyway, if you complete first three steps I have outlined, every time you connect your windows phone to pc and open zune (which I think all of us already do on daily basis), your photos will be automatically sync'd to the cloud. You will need to have Dropbox/skydrive running of course.
WHAT IS THE EASIEST WAY OF MOVING PICS FROM GALLERY, WHERE PICS TAKEN GO TO, TO MY PC.
THE ONLY WAY I CAN FIGURE IS TO MAIL THEM TO MY EMAIL.
I WOULD LIKE TO TO ABLE TO TAKE THEM OFF THE PHONE ONCE IT'S USB CONNECTED BUT I CANNOT FIND WHERE GALLERY IS BY OPENING UP THE PHONE OR SD CARD.
You should be able to find where a pic is by doing this in your Gallery (this is what I did on ICS): find the pic, open it, press MENU, click More, click Details and scroll to the bottom until you see an item "file location" (ignore the "/mnt/sdcard", you can't see them on your PC). Connect to PC and copy the pic out from the respective location.
And yeah, STOP USING CAPITAL LETTERS WHERE IT'S NOT NEEDED AT ALL
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You should be able to find where a pic is by doing this in your Gallery (this is what I did on ICS): find the pic, open it, press MENU, click More, click Details and scroll to the bottom until you see an item "file location" (ignore the "/mnt/sdcard", you can't see them on your PC). Connect to PC and copy the pic out from the respective location.
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that works geat...thanks again....you have been a great help
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If you use dropbox, enable the camera upload feature and then install dropbox on your computer. Now whenever you take photos or videos, they will automatically be uploaded to dropbox and then downloaded on your PC making this a 0-click transfer process. If you reach the 3 GB limit, simply move photos out of the folder on your PC and you can upload another 3 GB.
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If you use dropbox, enable the camera upload feature and then install dropbox on your computer. Now whenever you take photos or videos, they will automatically be uploaded to dropbox and then downloaded on your PC making this a 0-click transfer process. If you reach the 3 GB limit, simply move photos out of the folder on your PC and you can upload another 3 GB.
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WOO HOO!
WHAT DO WE HAVE FOR OUR WINNER, JOHNNY?:good::good: