Updates to Live Mesh

I mentioned in my last post that I've been invited to play around with Windows Live Mesh, and since then, I'll have to say, that I've been pretty impressed. It's pretty darn handy to be able to share folders across several computers, and have the content synched up automatically.

I'm not saying that Mesh is completely without it's problems though. Here are a few that I have found:

- Ever since I've installed it, Explorer crashes fairly often when I close a window. Now, this is a bit annoying, but it hasn't caused any real problems.

- For some reason, I have folders on one computer that have "Live Mesh Placeholders" instead of the actual files that I want synched. I have yet to research this one.

- Remote Desktop between the Mesh devices is horribly slow. I mean really slow.

To be entirely fair, I haven't done any research into any of these issues, so there could be a simple fix.

I saw on this post on the Live Mesh Blog, announcing a new build has been released. Here are some of the fixes:

News

· News not appearing until a second person has logged in.

Language settings

· Fixed date format and removed region requirement. You still need to set your OS language to English.

· User names with non-US-ASCIIcharacters are now supported.

Notifier

· Fixed device appearing offline in the notifier but showing online on your Live Desktop.

· Fixed synchronization failure when the network is unavailable.

Explorer

· Fixed the Windows Explorer crash when folders were closed

· Fixed the Windows XP “Roaming Desktop Icons” issue with Live Mesh Remote Desktop.

· Fixed the mesh bar not always opening when you open a Live Mesh folder

Live Desktop

· Fixed the “I’m interested in” in your Windows Live ID profile to be correctly viewed. No longer will you be “searching for love and romance” when you really wanted “Enterprise Networking.”

Live Mesh

· Fixed logs not being collected when your Windows XP login name has a space in it

· Fixed SilverLight version error with the Beta release

· Fixed SilverLight Play and Pause buttons being swapped around

· Fixed login names with a single character domain (livemesh @ m.com) not working correctly

You'll notice that my Explorer error is listed as one of the fixed items, yay! I installed the new build on one of my devices, and so far so good. I don't know if the other issues are fixed yet or not, I'll let you know as soon as I notice.

More to come...