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Service Update (March 4, 2009)

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The Live Mesh team is pleased to announce that our next update for Live Mesh for Mac will be available later today is now available. We will also be updating have also updated the Live Desktop. This release contains numerous bug fixes, as well as a few new features. Please see below for details, and thank you for using Live Mesh.

Features

  • New Media Viewer on the Live Desktop.
  • Live Mesh News will now display the date (as well as time) for all news items, even older ones.

Fixes

  • Improved the Live Desktop quota calculation.
  • Optimized MOE CPU/memory use.
  • Fixed Mac client startup errors that caused client to shut down shortly after launching.
  • Mac passwords containing extended characters now work properly.
  • Device status (online/offline) now properly displayed on the Live Desktop, in the notifier, and in the Mesh bar.
  • News now correctly displays the year.

For those of you keeping track, the new version numbers are:

  • Live Mesh for Mac: 0.9.3821.962
  • Live Desktop: 0.9.3424.31

Thank you for being one of the first to use Live Mesh!

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  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2009
    Glad to see bug fixes..but..why do Microsoft beta teams (with the notable exception of the new Windows 7 team so far) seem to always add new features while not adding basic functionality that was requested at the beginning of the Beta. Drag and drop for folders. One of THE most basic things you need for any kind of app in the cloud for reasons that should be obvious. Each time, we get new bells and whistles but basic features (and there are some others) I've been reading about on the forum since the early days just seem to be disregarded for the "cool" and updated. This was the problem with Vista, I see it as a problem with IE8 where the first betas focused on tons of new features that constantly created problems rather than just basic browsing, and now Mesh which I love seems to be getting caught up in "newness." I have said it before and I'll say it again, Microsoft is best when the core software handles all the basics and then third party developers add bells and whistles. When Microsoft gets on the bells they get to a release and then are surprised when users ask a basic question like why won't the browser "browse" or in this case why won't the live desktop act like a desktop and let me drag and drop folders. I know we got to get bugs first but after bugs the comes basics.

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2009
    What about Windows Users will we be getting an update as well and what about Win Mobile ??

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2009
    What about windows and windows mobile users will we be seeing updates as well ??

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2009
    Any ETA on a Windows client update, esp. one addressing the "black screen" remote desktop issue? The feedback entry on that has been stuck at "working on a fix" for months.

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2009
    Will the "Turning off Transparency when using remote desktop in Win7" bug ever be fixed for real?

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2009
    @ Windows client & Mobile client questions, Please stay tuned: You have not, of course, been forgotten, and we'll have more to say soon.

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2009
    Is delta sync going to be implemented sometime soon?

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2009
    When will drag and drop start working for the live desktop?

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2009
    I tried the "My Phone" service, and the WinMo client is exactly what I could expect from a sync tool : light and fast ! To sync my thousand photos + videos, it took a time, but only to send them, not to scan them ! I really wish the next version of Live Mesh for WinMo will be a true soft (not a "limited" IE displaying web pages) and will improves speed AND basic function as choosing which folder to sync, or synching an existing folder in the mesh.

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2009
    Am loving Mesh on Vista and OS X. Why is it that even with the latest update, I have to restart Mesh on the Mac two or three times before it starts properly? Rich

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2009
    Just installed the MAC update on MacBook Pro (today is 3/6/09); Live Mesh still crashes immediately upon attempted start-up. Not fixed yet.

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2009
    I'm still getting crashes with this update. I tried updating first, then removing, rebooting, and re-installing. Is there perhaps a plist or something I'm missing when uninstalling?

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    March 06, 2009
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    March 06, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2009
    Hi, Installed on my 2 Mac Book Pros and works fine also both iMacs but my personal Mac Book Air (1st gen) and test one at work (1st gen) crash on startup (not the same error as the last version) this looks like an OS crash dialog window. Cheers... Model of both: Model: MacBookAir1,1, BootROM MBA11.00BB.B03, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 1.8 GHz, 2 GB Graphics: kHW_IntelGMA965Item, GMA X3100, spdisplays_builtin, 144 MB Memory Module: BANK 0/Built-In 0, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz Memory Module: BANK 1/Built-In 1, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8B), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.38.24) Bluetooth: Version 2.1.3f8, 2 service, 0 devices, 1 incoming serial ports Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en0 Network Service: Parallels Shared Networking Adapter, Ethernet, en1 Network Service: Parallels Host-Only Networking Adapter, Ethernet, en2 Parallel ATA Device: MCCOE64GEMPP, 55.9 GB (solid state)

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2009
    @Peter G. Chase, jackr, & VastSlug, We would appreciate you taking the time to file bugs with logs so that we can investigate the cause(s), if you wouldn't mind.  Please see our bug submission sticky on our support forums for more details: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en/LiveMesh/thread/d52b350a-f3e0-41c6-8e78-d6378e566b9e

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2009
    Is there any idea when live mesh will start working for people stuck behind a work proxy? I love using mesh, but I only really get half the benefit not being able to sync my two main computers together. thanks!

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2009
    @ Those still experiencing Mac client crashes: Please see this sticky thread on our support forums for a resolution: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en/LiveMesh/thread/6bc82eed-3daf-4f18-9a41-32917247a97d

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2009
    Is this media viewer only for pictures? I expected to be able to play the AVI I had stored on my live desktop, but alas it doesn't seem to work... That would be fantastic if you could eventually update it to play movies from the live desktop! That way I wouldn't have to download my 1.5 GB video of a concert anytime I wanted to watch/listen to it, but could watch it from any PC I was at (work/home/wherever) without syncing or having the live mesh software installed.

  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2009
    Your instructions at http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en/LiveMesh/thread/6bc82eed-3daf-4f18-9a41-32917247a97d worked fine. My Live Mesh is now working again. Thanks very much.

  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2009
    i have version 0.9.3424.14, when i click "check for updates" its saying that i have the most up to date version... any ideas?

  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2009
    @ john, This update was for Mac and the Live Desktop only. The Windows client version is still 3424.14

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2009
    Cool stuff! I was wondering if Live Mesh is eventually going to work with Oulook to sync e-mail like MobileMe does ?

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2009
    Will you make a version of Live Mesh for Mac PowerPC compatible? Please!!

  • Anonymous
    March 15, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2009
    It would be nice if Mesh wouldn't change the permissions on files. We sync some web projects between workstations and we are constantly resetting the permissions on the files to inherit from the folder. You know so IUSR and ASPNET can do what we need them to.

  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2009
    Live Mesh client forgets folders' sync settings after each sign-in. I chose "Never with this device" sync setting and it shows correctly on all other devices and on Live Desktop. But on that particular device(s) Live Mesh client doesn't respect these settings placing shortcuts to all its folders on the desktop after each sign-in.

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2009
    @ Fduch, This is currently the expected behavior (the shortcut folders will always reappear - though please note that they are not syncing: you have to double-click them to start the sync process, so Mesh is not forgetting your sync settings).  Many people have told us they don't want those shortcuts on their desktop, though, and we've been listening. :)

  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2009
    hi I regard those short cuts as annoying,I would like to opt out for their appareance. thank you