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Mark the little checkbox in the upper right-hand corner of the tile that represents the document in your SkyDrive. Click on Manage in the bar on the top, then click on Move to. You'll now be given the option to select the target location for your file. Alternatively, SkyDrive also supports Drag & Drop to achieve move operations:


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When I go to http://devices.live.com/Devices/SkyDriveSyncedStorage, I see a listing of my synced folders. I have only synced one. Clicking on it takes me to https://devices.live.com/Sync/FolderSelf, which is a view of the folder's contents. Inside there is a PDF document. I click on it, and it opens. I think the confusion is with the naming, the 5GB ...


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According to this April 2012 answer from Jeff Steinbok, the MS SkyDrive dev lead, file extensions are visible only for file types that SkyDrive doesn't internally support. Internally supported file types do not show extensions by default. Another answer to the same question suggested that users file a feature request. In summary, this feature isn't ...


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You can't. SkyDrive does not yet have a feature to rotate photos. PS: After I wrote the above line, I checked the official SkyDrive Help & How To. They confirm what I wrote: You currently can't rotate photos using SkyDrive. If you have the SkyDrive app installed on your computer, you can open photos in your SkyDrive folder and rotate them in a ...


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Actually, there is a "backdoor" method im using: First, share your SkyDrive/Google Drive folder on the local network, giving everyone "full control" (the SkyDrive/Google Drive folders are usually in C:\Users\[YOUR USE NAME HERE]\). Next, use the advanced NTFS permissions to clear all other's rights (ESPECIALLY "EVERYONE"!). Then, add your Windows ...


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In short, because of how fragmented and unintegrated Microsoft's various sync and cloud services (not to mention how confusing the names are), this is not possible. The (misnamed) SkyDrive storage associated with Live Mesh does not at all integrated with SkyDrive. Moving files between the two would be a manual process. This is all explained at this ...


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The SkyDrive Synced Storage (5 GB) associated with Live Mesh does not integrate into the other SkyDrive located at skydrive.live.com (25 GB). regarding the storage,SkyDrive Synced Storage (5 GB) is included in the skydrive.live.com (25 GB). The only point of "integration" is a link to View Synced Folders within the SkyDrive that will show any folders ...


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Whilst the question is specifically about Hotmail/SkyDrive, it may be worth noting that Google have now come up with a way of doing this with Gmail/Google Drive. All it seems to do, mind you, is help you share the document correctly with the people you're emailing to - it still doesn't actually attach it to the email from what I can see. Here's the ...


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This at least cuts out the step of having to download the file as its already there. Download Microsoft SkyDrive - the following text was taken from the download page SkyDrive for Windows is the easiest way to access your SkyDrive from your PC. When you install SkyDrive, a SkyDrive folder is created on your PC. Everything that you put in this ...


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You can't do this. What you can do is share the document or file you would otherwise send as an attachment. Tick the checkbox next to the document filename Click the Share link on the sidebar From the Share dialog that pops up with various options, you can share directly with another person by emailing them. Or you can click Get a link and select one ...


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They will accept any type of file. On my SkyDrive account I have MP4 files, ZIPs, RARs, Tar.gz's and all kind of archive, but it's for upload, for editing, just Office files and plain text. But the files needs to be -50MB in size. PS: I've stored all my podcast media there and I had no problem



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