Skydrive and Dell laptop not syncing

30. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , , ,

Hi,

 

I have numerous files that aren't syncing from my laptop to Skydrive.  I can't figure out where to configure Skydrive so that any new files created on the desktop version of Skydrive automatically sync to the cloud.  Can you provide step-by-step directions?  All of the documents are showing the two blue arrows (syncing I guess) and never make it to a green check like the initial documents I uploaded to the web version.

 

Thanks.

SkyDrive is no longer syncing

30. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , ,
I am running Win7 ultimate.  I have had SkyDrive for at least a year. 

Then, about a monthy ago, Sky drive sync was malfunctioning during sign-in during start up.  So....I decided to uninstall the app on my PC and re-install to stop the anomalous behavior.  

Uninstall was uneventful.
Now-- I can't re-install the app using FULL ADMINISTRATOR RIGHTS!?!?!? 

Really, what is the issue here.  
I even tried to reset the UAC and this was not helpful.  I AM the admin on my system, and I have no idea what is going on with this app.  Frankly, I am disappointed with MS on this issue, and I have a huge paid account.  

So, please tell me...is there a hotfix? 
Tell me how I can get my files back from the cloud.  
My dissertation is suffering because of this situation.

Saving files to Skydrive

29. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: ,
Since upgrading to Windows 8.1, I can open files from my Skydrive but cannot save to Skydrive.  The message says I do not have Administrator permission though when I look at my account it says I am an Administrator.  By working through Control Panel if I try to change my account type it only allows me to have a Standard account and not administrator.

A similar issue exists with One Note.

Please help

SkyDrive won’t sign-on from my office.

28. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags:
Hello:

I use SkyDrive to sync between my laptop and desktop.  Until last week it worked fine but on Friday last I noticed that it never completes the sign-in process when I am logged on at work.  All I get is the icon in my taskbar that indicates SkyDrive is signing in.  I took my laptop home and it worked just fine on my home network but again won't sign-in on the work network.  I checked with my work network administrator (who also uses SkyDrive) and he says it should work.

I am puzzled because it works on one network and not the other and also because it was working fine until very recently. I considered to uninstall/reinstall scenario but was afraid it would have an adverse affect on the files I have synced.



SkyDrive Sync Engine Host stopped working after Windows 8.1 update

28. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags:
Hello there,

After the Windows 8.1 PRO update SkyDrive stopped working and now I'm getting error every once in a while and SkyDrive won't work properly. I've already searched a lot on how to solve this but I didn't find any answer for this error.

The sync app crashes very often and creates a new skydrive folder (????) renaming the old one as SkyDrive.old. Really? What kind of programming is that?


How do I remove this SkyDrive from Windows 8? It simply won't let me remove, I don't want to use a program that I can't even trust a little bit, better stay with Google Drive. There is no SkyDrive service that can be stopped, please help me solve this issue.

Skydrive 8.1 Queries

28. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: ,
Two queries about the new version :

1 How do I know the status of uploads to Skydrive? - In the previous version you could see the status via the notification icon.  I can't see how to do this in 8.1.  I can see the download status via the Skydrive W8.1 app, but not uploads.

2 As a test I saved a word file to a local folder synced to Skydrive.  I then checked Skydrive and the file was in the cloud almost instantly.  I then created some empty folders and they didn't appear in Skydrive.  Are they queued behind something else?  Which takes me back to my first query.  

I have also tried to set one of the empty folder in the local skydrive folder to on line only but get an error message stating the file is still uploading so something is obviously happening.

Finally, I can manually upload files from the cloud skydrive using the upload function.

Thanks for reading




Seriously, when will skydrive drops the non-sense to offer no automatic upload to non-windows smartphones?

28. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: ,

As a paying customer for skydrive, I am annoyed and don't understand the motive that skydrive doesn't offer automatic upload for non-windows phones. A competition advantage? Come on, you have enough talents to compete on a higher field!


I still have other reasons to pay for the SkyDrive service at the moment. But when the competitors start to offer the same, I will have no hesitation to walk away from skydrive, should MS sticks to this non-sense! 

SkyDrive subscription has stopped working

28. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: ,
In September I purchased a 12 month subscription for an additional 100 GB of SkyDrive space. It worked fine for about 10 days and then, although my account says that I have an active 100GB subscription the drive size is back to 7GB.

I have just about gone mad trying to find someone in Microsoft who can help.

I have followed all the various instructions on different pages but it seems that Microsoft assume that there is nothing that can go wrong with SkyDrive that can't be fixed by the user, so no-one is responsible for this sort of issue.

There must somewhere be a hold all place for issues that should not be able to happen, like this one.

Does anyone know how to find it?

PS. Sorry about the topic selection, but there is not even a topic selection to cover this sort of issue.

Getting multiple copies of my excel files created in skydrive

27. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , ,

Using Windows 7

IE 10

Office 2013 - Excel

 

In Excel I am saving my spread sheets to my skydrive location, modifying them and doing regular saves.

 

When I check skydrive via logging in IE (or the app I downloaded) I have multiple copies of my files??  How do I stop this happening?

 

I have also tried to download the skydrive app and now when I double click the icon I get a folder type list, no choices to enable sync of certain folders on my PC etc which I expected.  How do I set up sync (or can I not?)

 

Any advice gratefully received.

Skydrive server unavailable

27. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , ,
Everytime I try and save a file to the Skydrive it says the Server is temporarily unavailable.  Been like that since I first tried to use Skydrive and installed new Microsoft Office last month.  Why?  I would like to store files on Sky drive to be able to access them from other ports such as my iPad.
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