Mesh

Microsoft have recently announced the end of Live Mesh Beta, and its replacement with Live Mesh – part of Live Essentials. The Gorse Fox has been a regular user of the Beta product and so had a migration to perform. This went pretty easily.

• Stop sync’ing old folders
• Install new code (which uninstalls the old code)
• Log in to account (same credentials as before)
• Add each folder that you want as part of the Mesh from its master copy.
• Go to all other machines where you used to sync – delete the old sync folders and re-add them.
• Voila – all necessary folders available on all participating machines and also in the cloud. Changes made on any machine are reflected to all.

Neat really. Particularly if you use a common folder structure and have a separate backup device on one machine that will pick up these changes from anywhere in the Mesh network and back them up to an external drive.

Belt, braces, staples and string.