Microsoft has integrated SkyDrive deeply into the Windows 8.1 operating system. This allows us to sync files between your system and cloud server. SkyDrive feature comes to the rescue when your system fails and you need to access your important documents urgently. In such a case if you have synced your files with SkyDrive; you can access them from anywhere on web.
Today, I came across the synchronization issue with my SkyDrive folder inside File Explorer. Actually, the SkyDrive option in the left pane of Explorer window was showing yellow exclamation mark error icon on the SkyDrive entry. Here is the screenshot of the scenario:
However, when I was seeing this error icon, I was still able to synchronize my files but it looks like a single or some files didn’t synchronized from the huge bunch of files. That’s why I was getting the warning mark. I tried the resynchronization of all the applicable files but unfortunately it didn’t helped me. So finally I tried following steps in order to resolve this problem:
SkyDrive Error Icon
1. First of all,
close the SkyDrive app and File Explorer from the Task Manager (pressing
CTRL +
SHIFT +
ESC reveals this).
2. Now press the
Windows Key + R and type following location in the Run dialog box and hit
Enter:
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\SkyDrive\settings
3. In the Settings window, select
all the items and
Delete them.
4. Moving on, press Windows
Key + R combination, type put
Regedt32.exe in Run dialog box and hit
Enter to open the Registry
Editor.
5. Navigate here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SkyDrive
6. In the right pane of this location, look for the
UserFolder named registry string and double click to modify it. Now in the following box, put the Value data for the correct SkyDrive folder, because you might find different location here since you’re facing the issue.
7. Click
OK and close the Registry Editor and
reboot the machine. After restart, you’ll see that SkyDrive is now able to sync your files and error exclamation mark has been removed. Now go to following location:
C:/Users/%username%/
8. In the above shown window, delete the
SkyDrive.old folder. Now open the
SkyDrive Modern App and press
Windows Key + I, click
Options. Finally enable the
Access all files offline option by moving the slider to
On.
This should fix the problem...
twc
