Omnidrive - Still Interesting
Posted on September 6, 2006
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Last wrote about Omnidrive a week or two ago. Since then not a whole lot has changed. The web interface is definitely improved and quite “friendly”. Except I have yet to figure out what the hell I’m doing when I click on “Create a New Live Folder.” Sounds interesting and there’s probably a help file somewhere that I haven’t found yet.
In a comment to my previous article, Nic mentioned some new client updates should be out. Unfortunately, I’ve not found ‘em yet. I’ve ran my Omnidrive Updater a few times and even re-downloaded the install package. Guess they didn’t make it out for beta?
I did notice something a bit odd while poking around though. In my Omnidrive install directory is a folder with my user account name. Not overly surprising. An omnidrive.xml folder that details my folders and files stored in my omnidrive account. Again, not overly surprising… I think. Makes sense from a local client and/or integration perspective I reckon. But what was surprising is that I also found local copies of those directories and all the files in ‘em! I reckon this explains why working with files in the “omnidrive” system folder is so zippy. Just don’t move stuff to Omnidrive in hopes of saving space.
I have mixed feelings about that last piece, yet I wonder if I’ve missed the point of the client programs for this? Just seems odd to upload something to an online storage app and find an extra copy of it locally.
Tags: beta, omnidrive, online-storage
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