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Folders and Photo Gallery are now in beta

By on June 27, 2007 2:37 AM
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Well we just got the email, and Windows Live Folders and Windows Live Photo Gallery are now available if you have been invited.  You should have received an invitation to “Windows Live Beta” a few weeks ago, and if you completed that, you’re in!  Make sure to sign up for Folders as early as possible:

We have limited availability for Windows Live Folders, so make sure you sign up between the hours of 10:00am and 4:00pm PST on Wednesday, June 27th. Also, Live Folders is available in the United States only at this time. You will not be able to access the Live Folders site if you are outside the Unites States.

We’ll have more, of course, once we get to playing with these two new betas.

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Comments

  • simseb

    [quote]You will not be able to access the Live Folders site if you are outside the Unites States.[/quote]
    I’m logging in from Belgium, with both custom domains id and live.be id.

  • hey07

    I just logged into live folders. it’s cool. Yes i could log in from Japan.

  • http://www.liamdaly.co.uk DN2004

    It works fine in Firefox outside US but if you use it in IE it says you cannot use it as you are outside of the US. Hopefully they will not fix this

  • http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson jamiet

    I never received an invite (that I can remember) and yet I can login and upload stuff. Weird.

    -Jamie

  • BV2312

    For people outside US, go to accounts.live.com change the region to US and it should work…

  • http://bointhemix.jcxp.net BoInTheMix

    it’s public.. and i’m from israel
    Windows Live Folders

  • http://albertceo.spaces.live.com Alber1690

    So yeah, what’s up? Why are we able to login? I don’t remember signing up or receiving an email? Could it be because we’re signed up with FolderShare?

  • AndyD

    I like Folders. Photo Gallery still doesn’t beat Photoshop Lightroom for me, but then again, MS doesn’t support my camera on Vista. I have to use LR to view the pictures since they are in .CRW format.

    I am hoping they will come out with a desktop upload program for folders to make it easier.

  • http://khristopherr.spaces.live.com Khristopher

    Absolutely ridiculous that we’re not allowed to use Folders in Canada. Sometimes Live really pisses me off.

  • http://jackiboi.spaces.live.com/blog Jacki Boi

    I really cant get these to install, it closes after the UAC dialogue appears (i know this has happened before) and i have tried the fix on the WLWriter page and the instalation still failos, anyone else having the same problem?

  • tardisinc

    Well, I’m rather unimpressed.

    Or: The service is currently useless to me.

    1) 50 MB file limitation? 500 MB overall space? Sorry, not going to cut it. I have PowerPoints larger than 50 MB… and while I _could_ reduce them, I ain’t just to use a bloody service.

    2) I have to SIT and WAIT for it to upload? Er, no.

    3) I want a bulk upload, and more importanttly, a Backup Syncing application.

    –> Integrated with Foldershare. So I can upload some folders to the web, and sync others across computers.

    That said, it looks like they got permissions right. I haven’t tested with a non-Messenger contact though.. how do you do that? I think they’d auto-generate a passphrase and send it to the email with a login string.

  • mitcha

    To get into Folders Live anywhere, just change in your IE7, OPTIONS/LANGUAGES
    Set EN-Us your first option, that is how i could get to log in into Folders Live..

    But I cannot see anything at Photos Gallery link, could someone, PLEASE, post the direct link for downloading ?

  • Hb8

    getting a missing propsys.dll error when installing Live Photo Gallery. Anyone else?

  • mrx9898

    ahhh crap, i didn’t get an invitation :(. I really wanna try out WL Photo Gallery….as I don’t have windows vista :(. shucks!

  • http://alpesh.nakars.com/blog alpesh

    I am in Australia and i just signed in. No email, no nothing!

    Small files upload really quickly. Would love to have desktop client. I am sure they will provide at some stage

  • http://atlive.org Pal

    @Hb8 As it mentioned, if you’r a XP user, you have to get Windows Desktop Search and Windows Imaging Codecs installed, or there will be a tip telling you that propsys.dll is missing.

  • http://www.msgstuff.com the andyman

    @tardisinc As far as I know a new version of Windows Live Foldershare will integrate with WLFolders. As for your second point how do you expect it to instantly upload with just the refresh of the browser? Get a faster internet connection or some patience (or just open another browser tab or window ;) ).

  • bjorn666

    I was able to sign up as well w/o problems, never received an invite/email but where are the upload links? Or, better, where do I need to go for Live Folders????????????
    maybe its just my browser thats not liked around here since I’m using FFoX

  • Drazick

    Is there any way to get an invitation?

    Thanks.

  • Hb8

    @Pal
    Actually, yes, I already had installed the Windows Imaging codec and desktop search as per instructions (I DO read them) but I’m still getting the propsys.dll error

  • http://theliveforums.com Beau

    Photo Gallery’s cool, especially on XP :)

    I’ve got some more info, as well as some screenshots up at my forums, so head over there for more information.

    Linky >> http://theliveforums.com/index.php?showtopic=260

    Cheers,
    Beau

  • http://blogs.freshlogicstudios.com/smiller smiller

    @tardisinc

    I agree. Having to sit and wait for an upload isn’t all that great.

    Turns out it’s rather difficult to create a progress bar for uploads over HTTP. However, we’ve managed to tackle it with Fresh Logic Studios Folders (http://www.freshlogicstudios.com/Products/Folders). Thought you might be interested in checking it out. We also have a few other goodies like drag/drop, right click, cut/copy/paste, etc

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