Skydrive on 8.1

[minestrone]

Is that not the way it worked anyway? photos taken on my mobile would show up as thumbnails on the PC until opened.

Thing is that node of the file deletions, moves and updates I have made in the last few days on my 8.0 laptop folder have reflected onto the 8.1 PC.

[BigRed]

RTFM.

SkyDrive attempts to sync files intelligently instead of keeping a local copy on each device. Let’s say you already have 5GB of files in your SkyDrive account and you get a new Windows 8.1 PC. After signing into your new PC, SkyDrive won’t automatically download all your files. You’ll be able to browse all your files in the SkyDrive folder, but SkyDrive will download them when you try to open them. Microsoft calls these “smart files” — SkyDrive downloads information about the files, but not the contents of the files themselves.

Windows also monitors the files you use and automatically syncs files it thinks you will open. Luckily, you don’t have to rely on Windows’ instincts. You can also just tell SkyDrive to sync certain files or folders. To do this, right-click a file or folder in the SkyDrive folder and select Make available offline. SkyDrive will download the selected files — or all files contained in the selected folder — and keep them synced. They’ll be available when you need them without any on-demand downloading.

Brilliant, best of both worlds. Came as a bit of a shock when I upgraded to 8.1 though, cos Skydrive is built into the OS in 8.1 so you have to be aware of the changes.

[minestrone]

I take it this no longer maps the files on the skydrive cloud to a local folder?

I have upgraded a machine from 8 to 8.1 and whilst I can see the skydrive folder in explorer I think that is just an icon on a folder and is no longer synced up with the skydrive desktop app working, I cant seem to work with the files in any other way other than through the browser.

I tend to use skydrive as a working directory for photoshop images to go between my desktop and laptop which it seems I can't do seamlessly anymore.

I can't ******* believe how much foot shooting Microsoft do.