QuickSync backs up selected files and folders so they can be recovered after a system crash.
Users can backup multiple computers, have flexible scheduling options, can access their data from anywhere and share files and folders, with support for over 400 different file types.
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Also today, the Redmond giant announced several new features to SkyDrive including the ability to select what you sync along with the ability to share files and folders right from the Windows File Explorer.
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All of these services also allow you to share files and folders, which can be great for co-workers who collaborate on projects or family and friends who want to share photos, videos and other files.
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Copying the files in these folders to a hard drive stopped them being automatically deleted.
In the event of a catastrophe, one can easily and quickly recover individual files, entire folders, or restore the complete system to a point in time.
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Keep your customers and others up-to-date on your business by dropping your latest news files into convenient folders that automatically upload to your social media accounts, including Facebook, Flickr and YouTube.
They set their information technology systems to restrict electronic access to their research and development servers to only those who were authorized to receive the confidential software, files, and folders stored on them.
This broad metaphor also lent itself to sub-metaphors, including object-icons such as a rubbish bin (also the work of Mr Mercer when he worked at Apple in the 1980s), folders and files.
Users can now easily share links to their files and choose how their folders are synced (locally or remotely).
And while most applications have default folders where the files they create (such as the Excel spreadsheet mentioned above) are saved, the path to such a folder may have been changed (by you or another user, either accidentally or on purpose).
Those folders were home to some 126 billion files that contain everything from personal data hosted by a social networking service, sales records, video game source code and even unencrypted backups of databases.
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You upload your own material from either a simple interface, which deals with individual files, or an advanced interface where you can import entire folders.
Business presentations, home movies, and even entire folders can be opened and viewed instantly without having to sign in, download anything, or open files separately.
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