Hi, my name's Julie and I'm a moderator for the French-language Office Live Workspace Community.

I'm passing on a suggestion we received from a user. His original post:

http://fr.myofficelivecommunity.com/discuss/forums/p/4225/4426.aspx#4426

Translation:

"Good evening.

New on the forum, I've come to ask my first question which is quite simple.

Why do we not have the possibility to automatically synchronize our directory from our hard drive containing our worked-upon documents with our OLW online workspaces.

This could avoid certain mishaps and permit us to work directly on the last version of our modified and updated documents.

This would also allow us the ability to work offline, like in a train for example, and to synchronize the work automatically once we get back online.

Thank you for your replies.

PS: It seems to me that Google put a system like this called "Gears", but my view is that their "google documents" seems to me to perform at a lower level than your system."

A second user in the same thread has the same suggestion.

https://fr.myofficelivecommunity.com/discuss/forums/t/4225.aspx

"Hello, I asked myself exactly the same question in saying to myself that if this option exists, I'll be using Office Live Workspace all the time. If not, I'll be swapping between versions on my hard drive and OLW and it'll be a real pain....

We don't always have access to the internet and it's not possible to rely solely on OLW!

Thank you."

It should be great to have a synch tool available. Microsoft has at the moment already Live Mesh that can do the job with synching offline files on an online storage. Is it not possible to integrate OLW with live mesh?