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How to map your MS-Windows Live Skydrive/Office online storage as a network share to work natively with cloud storage

2011/05/23 plagwitz Leave a comment

This allows you access cloud storage files (Note: works only for MS-Office files) as easily as within MS-Windows, and without having to deal with web browser incompatibilities.

Setup:

If you know the URL of your MS-Office online Skydrive (how?),

in Windows 7, go to Network / Map network drive:

Enter the URL that SkyDrive gives you, make sure to change “https:”to “http:”, select a drive letter:

And voilà: An MS-Skydrive WebDAV location as a drive in your Windows Explorer:

Troubleshooting:

if you have try this over the (restrictive) university wireless, you seem to get errors (“The file cannot be accessed by the system”):

Interestingly after successfully receiving the authentication challenge from the resource

If you have successfully mapped the drive over the non-wireless and then try to access it over the wireless, you may get this (0x80070035: ”The network path was not found”):