Win8 and SkyDrive
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I have Windows 8 Pro (from MSDN) installed on my laptop, which has one physical drive in two partitions, one for programs and one for data (pretty typical, IMO). SkyDrive was set to D:\MyStuff\SkyDrive instead of the typical C:\Users\...\SkyDrive install. All was working fine until I downloaded the latest updates. The next time I rebooted, SkyDrive changed its path to C:\Users and started re-downloading all of my stuff to that directory as well! Fortunately, I didn't have enough stuff to fill that partition, but I easily could have. Did anyone else experience a problem like that? Also, I'm now starting to wonder if setting up two partitions on one drive is even necessary anymore; it definitely makes sense from a data backup perspective, but if all your stuff is in the cloud already, is it worth the headache?
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I have Windows 8 Pro (from MSDN) installed on my laptop, which has one physical drive in two partitions, one for programs and one for data (pretty typical, IMO). SkyDrive was set to D:\MyStuff\SkyDrive instead of the typical C:\Users\...\SkyDrive install. All was working fine until I downloaded the latest updates. The next time I rebooted, SkyDrive changed its path to C:\Users and started re-downloading all of my stuff to that directory as well! Fortunately, I didn't have enough stuff to fill that partition, but I easily could have. Did anyone else experience a problem like that? Also, I'm now starting to wonder if setting up two partitions on one drive is even necessary anymore; it definitely makes sense from a data backup perspective, but if all your stuff is in the cloud already, is it worth the headache?
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IndifferentDisdain wrote:
Also, I'm now starting to wonder if setting up two partitions on one drive is even necessary anymore
I don't partition one drive anymore...I use two drives instead. :-D
Yeah, this laptop is headed to 'test machine' status very soon. Once the Pro versions of Surface are out, that'll be the laptop replacement (don't need a laptop too much anymore, so that should suffice when I do, and the wife gets the iThingy I'm currently using), then it's on to a custom build home desktop with plenty of drives.
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Yeah, this laptop is headed to 'test machine' status very soon. Once the Pro versions of Surface are out, that'll be the laptop replacement (don't need a laptop too much anymore, so that should suffice when I do, and the wife gets the iThingy I'm currently using), then it's on to a custom build home desktop with plenty of drives.
IndifferentDisdain wrote: " ... then it's on to a custom build home desktop with plenty of drives " 'Ve been sitting under a stack of drives now for fifteen years and frankly I just don't get all this portability stuff. Don't own a cell phone, etc. But I am wondering why Visual Studio is NOT 64-bit by now ...
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I have Windows 8 Pro (from MSDN) installed on my laptop, which has one physical drive in two partitions, one for programs and one for data (pretty typical, IMO). SkyDrive was set to D:\MyStuff\SkyDrive instead of the typical C:\Users\...\SkyDrive install. All was working fine until I downloaded the latest updates. The next time I rebooted, SkyDrive changed its path to C:\Users and started re-downloading all of my stuff to that directory as well! Fortunately, I didn't have enough stuff to fill that partition, but I easily could have. Did anyone else experience a problem like that? Also, I'm now starting to wonder if setting up two partitions on one drive is even necessary anymore; it definitely makes sense from a data backup perspective, but if all your stuff is in the cloud already, is it worth the headache?
Beginning in 1985, I partitioned all of my hard drives, and kept the habit up until 2009. I don't do it anymore.
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I have Windows 8 Pro (from MSDN) installed on my laptop, which has one physical drive in two partitions, one for programs and one for data (pretty typical, IMO). SkyDrive was set to D:\MyStuff\SkyDrive instead of the typical C:\Users\...\SkyDrive install. All was working fine until I downloaded the latest updates. The next time I rebooted, SkyDrive changed its path to C:\Users and started re-downloading all of my stuff to that directory as well! Fortunately, I didn't have enough stuff to fill that partition, but I easily could have. Did anyone else experience a problem like that? Also, I'm now starting to wonder if setting up two partitions on one drive is even necessary anymore; it definitely makes sense from a data backup perspective, but if all your stuff is in the cloud already, is it worth the headache?
I don't have the Win8 final bits yet, but on the release preview, with the skydrive directory under d:\users\{my user name}, I haven't had any problems like you're describing.
