Since upgrading to Windows 8.1, the SkyDrive folder on my laptop is no longer syncing with the online folder in my Microsoft account. Last week, I created two folders, each to hold a single document, edited in Word 365. They saved on the local machine and in the SkyDrive app, showed as the only folders available offline (although the others were). However, they did not appear in the web version of SkyDrive. I tried various things, such as logging out of my SKyDrive account in the browser and back in, turning off the SKyDrive app on my machine, but all to no effect.

Today, I thought that I would try deleting the folders and creating them on the website in my browser. This worked, so I uploaded the two Word documents I wanted them to contain (having copied them to a different folder on my local machine). In the browser, I now have the folders and the documents, which I can open and update in Word. However, neither the folders nor the files show in the SkyDrive App or in Windows Explorer. They have not been synced to my local machine at all and there is no sign in the app of a failure at syncing (indeed, there is no progress "bar"/dots showing at all, or any error messages).

I am rapidly getting to the end of my tether with this, I've been using SkyDrive for over a year and find it essential. It has not been working now for two weeks, since upgrading to Windows 8.1. I want to go back to Windows 8, but there is no way of doing so (cleverly, Windows 8.1 wipes all restore earlier restore points when it installs. Well thought out, Microsoft).

I am seriously cross with this whole issue. Whatever was wrong with Windows 7 (the OS that actually drew me away from Linux!)?