NEWEST UPDATE HAS ADDED THIS FEATURE. NEW NAME: ONEDRIVE
is this normal behavior? I'm concerned that some files will not be transferred. For example. I need to be sure that its safe to put my laptop to sleep so that later when I'm on my desktop I wont have to open up my laptop and sync again if I closed it too early. It doesn't even appear when I THINK it is syncing.
Thanks for any help in advance.
edit 1:
Yeah I know the app isn't required or even offered anymore, but what I was wondering was if they had some way to tell if it's syncing or not. The old desktop app had an icon in the notification area which had a animation for when it was syncing, but now there isn't anything there. Although when I try to go in and make it appear it says the application isn't active and the icon will show the next time it is. Its version is 17.0.2015.0811
Is it possible to force the icon to show in the notification area if it isn't designed to show up there at all? I basically just want the same functionality of Skydrive on windows 8.
Best Answer
In Windows 8.1 SkyDrive doesn't sync all files by default. It only downloads the files that you edit or explicitly made offline. This is called mart files
Here is a blog post to show the diffs between ealier SkyDrive client and the 8.1 way.