Windows Sync Live - 14.0.8096.0903

As a Mac user I absolutely love this better, more reliable and dare I say it, faster alternative to ''immobile''Me offered by Apple--a company that think's it's smart to charge $99 a year for something that works some of the time and has been troublesome to just plain useless for the year I've had it. Windows Live Sync is great--but get this:

After working flawlessly for many many months between 3 Macs and a Dell, it still works flawlessly for me between my various Macs...but not on the Windows/Dell machine, where I get a strange new message I've never gotten before:

"Your XXX computer has been disconnected from the XXX folder because the path of a file in the folder was too long. To sync the folder again, please choose a folder that has a shorter path."

This is a new one, and dare I say, an opportunity for a few laughs, albeit nervous ones.

I've tried all sorts of tinkering to un-nest folders to shorten this so called file path that is too long. No luck.

But ultimately as a Mac user I can't complain though. Windows Live Sync is indeed the new MobileMe for a lot of Mac folks who use a combination of Windows Live Sync, Plaxo and Google (all free by the way) to keep their various boxes in sync.