Hello,

I store all of my pictures on Skydrive, I recently upgraded to Win 8.1 and all of my folders downloaded to my hard drive taking up a significant amount of space.  Searching online I was able to find how to enable/disable offline mode using the win 8 Skydrive app.

Two questions...

Is there a way in the future for me to select the offline mode up front versus having my files sync automatically?

Second,

Now that my files have downloaded to my hard drive I'm concerned that if I delete them they will be permanently deleted on Skydrive.  I've tested this process and when I deleted a file on my PC it deleted it in the cloud.  I have roughly 40gbs of pictures that is now taking up space on my HDD and I would like to safely remove these files without removing from Skydrive.  An help you can provide would be great.

Thanks,

CJ