When I'm running Windows Live FolderShare, I'd like to know what machines I have up and running. I have numerous machines running FolderShare and don't always know which machines are up, so having a submenu off the tray icon would be very helpful. All I'm looking for is an informative list, so clicking them isn't all that important to me. Ideally, tho, this could be a trafficlight-style link, where green represents a computer that's online; yellow might mean the computer is online, but not yet synchronized or maybe the status hasn't been identified, yet; and, red would obviously mean it's down. Looking at it another way, disconnected computers could be disabled and the status identifiers could represent the sync process or something like that. Going the extra mile, these items could even link to the FolderShare website on the remote file explorer page for that computer. That would be pretty nice.

Edit: This has been suggested in two ways: a list of available devices with an online/offline status icon (green/red); and, a notification balloon message that pops up when another client changes status.

Don't take this as me complaining about UAC. On the contrary, I like what it provides. Personally, I don't think I need it, since I haven't been affected by a virus since I don't know when; but that's not the point. I'd rather keep it on since I haven't reached the point of total aggravation, yet. I was thinking of a simple shortcut to get around it, tho. I can even provide a simple analogy that most people will understand and relate to. Anyone who's been using the web for more than 3-5 years has probably been annoyed by browser popups. What did we do about this? We created popup blockers. Well, what is UAC if not a popup? Granted, I have to admit that a UAC popup is much better than a browser popup. So, popup blockers are great and all, but what happens when you want the popup? You held down Shift or Ctrl when clicking on the link and it worked just fine. This is what UAC needs, in my opinion. Windows does a good job of telling you about when UAC will popup by providing the shield icon on buttons and next to links. When I'm about to click one of these, I'd like to be able to hold the Windows key, for instance, to bypass UAC. I think this would make life a little easier and more tolerable for those of us who know when to bypass UAC beforehand.

This is probably a suggestion that will never be implemented in Windows Live FolderShare, but I'd love to have the ability to support versioning. This drastically changes the service, tho. This would essentially be a personal CM repository. Perhaps FolderShare on Vista might solve this in part with the built-in versioning, but what I'm looking for is the ability to share that version history with multiple clients -- namely personal computers, but multiple users would be nice, too. Every time I think about this, I question whether or not it's really appropriate for the service, and I don't think I can say it is, but it is definitely a nice-to-have. For those who have the time and resources for it, I'd suggest using Subversion and TortoiseSVN; but FolderShare with versioning, a lot of this would be done for you. Perhaps this could be an additional service for the WL team. Hmm...

Edit: While not exactly version control, there have been a few suggestions the FolderShare team has received to keep a copy of files on a server. Additionally, there was a "check-in/check-out" suggestion. Together, these are the beginning of version control. I doubt we'll ever see it, but you never know.

For anyone who's seen and/or used TortoiseSVN  knows how great it is and how informative the icon overlays are. In a perfect world, Windows Live FolderShare would take one from the Tortoise book and provide both context menu commands to manage sync'ed data and provide a visual identifier of what has been changed locally and needs to be sync'ed and even conflicts, if appropriate. Having this would be absolutely awesome.

Edit: A suggestion has already been made to provide "better shell integration." This doesn't go into the level of integration I'd like to see, but it's a start. We'll have to see how that matures.

I completely understand that I can't sync between two computers when one isn't online, but I don't understand why I can't setup a sync directory. I should be able to install FolderShare on one machine and setup all the directories I'd like to sync. Then, at some later time, subscribe to those sync's when I install FolderShare on another machine. I don't think this is a huge deal, but it was a minor aggravation for me when I first got setup.

Edit: Someone already suggested that files should be sync'ed to an online storage somewhere, which would enable the "offline sync" I'm looking for. No word on any implementation.

One thing I expected when I first started using Windows Live FolderShare was the ability to configure sync directories from my computer, as opposed to the website. I'd really like to have that capability from the context menu.

One thing I find fairly aggravating is when I want to see files that have changed locally when I'm working with a TFS repository. Sure, I can see what's been checked out, but that doesn't mean those files have all been changed. Currently, all you can do is compare them one-by-one, which is a ridiculous process. Admittedly, my main reason for doing this is because I'm anal. I don't want files to be marked for check-in if they don't have any changes; specifically, I don't want them included in the check-in changeset. Based on this, I'd like to see TFS check-ins to ignore files that haven't changed or at least provide an option to do so.

Reported @ https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=260449

Edit: Some brilliant, small-minded person closed the suggestion and said we should simply not check-in files that haven't changed. The problem with this is that means we have to manually go thru every file that's been marked as changed. Consider a large check-in that includes hundreds of files. Checking all those files would take way too long and nobody would do it. I'm somewhat aggravated about this. I'll probably end up reporting it again.

Edit: Looks like this might be in the Team Foundation Power Tool v1.2. The tfpt uu command says it is supposed to "undo unchanged files." The question is, what does this really mean? You can specify a changeset, which tells me it allows you to remove unchanged files from a previously checked-in changeset. If that's the case, I'm very excited about it. I just hope it undoes currently checked out files when a changeset is not specified. Once I play with it, I'll report back, but this really needs to get included into the product instead of being a command-line action that must be performed.