Share Folders with Windows Live Foldershare
While there exists a seemingly infinite number of ways to send files to your friends, Windows Live Foldershare takes the cake for being the most convenient — once you set it up, which can have its own quirks here and there and may be considered “too much work.”
We’ll show you how to setup a sync so that both you and your friend (or whoever you’re sharing files with) can pick and choose which files to download. To begin, head over Foldershare.com, and hit the Get Started link and download the appropriate version. We’ll leave you to follow through the install and setup an account with Foldershare.
Creating a Shared Library
When it’s all setup, right click on the Foldershare icon in the task bar and hit Foldershare website.
Create a shared library.
Pick a folder to share.
Put down your friend’s account and add them. Or select them from the existing list.
For permissions levels, choose reader if this is going to be a one-way share, or contributor/editor if you’re going to both contribute to the folder (haven’t tested).
I’ve blanked out names for privacy concerns. Once you click Next, it’ll send an email and you’ll have shared the library. Your new shared folder will appear on the main Foldershare website, and in the Foldershare tray menu.
Click it, then click where it says Automatic synchronization under Your computers connected to this library.
We’re going to change this to On-demand Synchronization, unless you want files to automatically be transferred when added to the folder. When you set up on-demand synchronization for folders being shared with you, the folder you have chosen to sync it with will fill itself up with .p2p files, which when double clicked, download the file.
Other Notes
- To see recent additions to libraries, as well as to track your current Foldershare downloads, right click on the Foldershare tray icon and select Activity.
- Foldershare limits you to 10 shares, and 10000 files per share, and you can’t transfer files over 4GB in size.
Hope this came in handy.
I'm Jason, the main author of Third Error, and many of the topics I'll focus on concern Windows (and applicable software), web applications, web design, and a bit of *nix (Ubuntu mainly). My computer runs Windows XP, with virtualized Ubuntu and OS X handy.