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At some point in December, Microsoft’s FolderShare is going away. I used to use this a lot until they dropped Windows 2000 support. Now, instead of FolderShare, we’ll have Windows Live Sync instead (see details)

In December, we plan to announce a product called Windows Live Sync. You can think of it as FolderShare 2.0. It’s going to look familiar and offer the same great features, plus:

• More folders and files - sync up to 20 folders with 20,000 files each.
• Integration with Windows Live ID - no more extra sign-in stuff to remember.
• Integration with the Recyle Bin - no more separate Trash folder to fiddle with,
• Unicode support - sync files in other languages.

I’m not sure I was even aware of Windows Live Sync, but I like the higher limits — they also indicate the possibility of those limits being raised over time.

Still using FolderShare? Be aware of the one main “gotcha”:

Here’s the part you need to pay attention to: Sync will not be able to rebuild your shared libraries. If you have a lot of shared libraries, you should hop over to the FolderShare website while it’s still available and copy all that information. You’ll need it to rebuild your shared libraries in Sync.

What does this mean for Windows Live Mesh and SyncToy? Lot of overlap there… especially with Mesh, right?

Has anyone tried out Windows Live Sync yet? Surely there’s a beta going on — what’s it like and how’s it compare?

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