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Sharing Folders will be a new and simple way for you to share personal photos, documents, and files with your Messenger contacts. You will be able to create a Sharing Folder by simply dragging files onto a contact name in Messenger. This will create an exact copy of the files on both you and your contact’s computers, and create a Sharing Folder that can be accessed from Messenger, and on the desktop.
I can already share documents using e-mail. So what’s the big deal?
The Sharing Folder will be easier than e-mail for sharing photos and documents. In a Sharing Folder, any time a file in the folder is added, modified, or deleted, those changes will be synchronized with the person you’re sharing with. The Sharing File icon in Messenger will also show you a gleam on a contact so you will know when a Sharing File has been updated. And it’s a simple drag-and-drop to share files, even simpler than the “send file” and “save as” functions you are already familiar with in Messenger. The Sharing Folders will work pretty much like the PC folder experience you already know, so it will make sense right away. Just like in Windows, you will be able to drag-and-drop, get different views of files, copy, paste, etc. You will be able to access a Sharing Folder from your desktop, to manage files whether online or offline. And a Sharing Folder requires virtually zero setup or configuration, and efficiently handles file synchronization without any fuss.
March 6th, 2007 at 2:58 am
I was on File Sharing and it was synchronized to my sisters computer but after my mom accidently signed me off I couldn’t get it re- synchronized and the file hasn’t transferred all the way it was at 50%.
August 28th, 2006 at 9:46 am
how the heck to i delete files in my sharing folder? not contact’s sharing folders, i like those in there, but i - for some stupid reason - added some pictures to the main sharring folder (in no particular folder) and now i can’t get rid of them… i hate them in there… how do i delete them… i can’t!