Experience with Portable Apps in the cloud?

[DW!]

Hello,

besides Office and some metro apps I am mainly using portable apps and I'm happy with that - but I am quite new with using cloud storage.

I am curently playing with the idea to store all my important files in the cloud (and make the file offline available) - including my portable apps folder.

Any experience with that? Does it work? Does it slow down the usage or is the speed of the apps?

Thx.
DW!

 

[daniielrp]

Will you be keeping the portable apps folder available offline? If that's the case you won't notice any difference really as the PC will still be running a "local" version of the app.

 

[DW!]

Haven't done it yet, but I plan to... and thanks - good to know

 

[kristalsoldier]

Pardon my ignorance, but what are 'portable apps'?

I use SkyDrive extensively and save quite a few of my documentation there (having the 200GB from MS helps). I have made quite a few of my folders on SkyDrive available for offline work - the more/ most essential ones, of course. Additionally, I have moved the SkyDrive folder to my SD card, which allows me to be a bit more extravagant when making files and folders available offline. Personally, I find it to be an excellent feature which works quite well - I would loathed to give up if I have to. In fact, I have assumed that I would have to pay for the 200GB of storage once the 2 years' offer from MS expires and I am willing to bear that cost. That said, I should perhaps organize my files and folders better on SkyDrive!

 

[DW!]

For portable apps see PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives or The Portable Freeware Collection - Latest entries - but you need a full Windows not the RT version to use such programs...

 

[kristalsoldier]

For portable apps see PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives or The Portable Freeware Collection - Latest entries - but you need a full Windows not the RT version to use such programs...

Thanks! Very interesting!