SkyDrive & Windows 8.1

[Hyp3rion]

Hello,

I have an annoying problem with online/offline files in SkyDrive.
I like all off my pictures to be in the pictures folder of SkyDrive. As I have a fast internet connection I want these to be in the "available online" mode only to save on disk space. Most of these are in this mode but around 3gig are not.
So, when I right click on these files and change them from "make available offline" to "online only" I think great job done only to notice a little while later that SkyDrive is changing them back to "make available offline" and re-downloading them to my hard drive.

Anyone have a clue as to why this might be happening?

Hyp

 

[Gav_881]

Robbed from another site, it appears when you access the files it stores them locally, sounds a bit naff to me.


SkyDrive files available "online only"

If you'd synchronised desktop files on your PC with SkyDrive before installing the 8.1 update, you may have been shocked when you first looked into your SkyDrive folder to discover folders now marked as available "online only".

On our test office PC, this label proved misleading. Files stored inside folders that were ostensibly "online only" were still available even when we disconnected from the internet, and the local file storage afforded to SkyDrive suggests those files are indeed still saved locally.

Microsoft's support site claims that: "The SkyDrive files you've saved or previously opened on your PC are automatically available offline on that PC. Any files you create on SkyDrive.com or another computer are online-only to save space on your PC."

To avoid any confusion, open Windows Explorer, right click on "SkyDrive" in the left-hand pane and click "Make available offline". All your files should now be synchronised locally, if they weren't already.

 

[Hyp3rion]

Hi,

My issue is slightly different in that I have not accessed the files and any file that I change to online only reverts back to offline shortly after.