A few months ago, I surveyed several online storage sites. Although I might not make the same decision today, I decided to use Windows Live SkyDrive. SkyDrive provides 5GB of online storage that can be shared with friends or the world, or be maintained as private.
I use SkyDrive to move files over the Internet between multiple computers that are physically distributed. SkyDrive uses an https interface and I encrypt the files that I move back and forth.
When I first investigated SkyDrive, I was surprised that it did not provide a programmatic interface. In addition, the SkyDrive user interface is a little cumbersomb to use, so I wrote a couple of AutoIt scripts to automate writing and reading files. AutoIt code is available below for PutFile and GetFile.
Code will go here – PutFile
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Code will go here – GetFile
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