I turned off wireless to test this and found that the SkyDrive app does not make SkyDrive files available for offline access. This is really unacceptable!
I turned off wireless to test this and found that the SkyDrive app does not make SkyDrive files available for offline access. This is really unacceptable!
I turned off wireless to test this and found that the SkyDrive app does not make SkyDrive files available for offline access. This is really unacceptable!
If you need to work offline, try using MICROSD and save your files there.I turned off wireless to test this and found that the SkyDrive app does not make SkyDrive files available for offline access. This is really unacceptable!
Welcome to the cloud.
If you need to work offline, try using MICROSD and save your files there.
More like - Welcome to poorly implemented Cloud on RT by Microsoft. DropBox, SkyDrive on Windows 8 and iCloud all keep an offline copy of documents / files so they can be accessed when there no network connectivity.
It's still unacceptable!
...sorry, I came into thread late and needed to be outraged even though the issue is solved.
The only reason they keep an offline copy is because the files originated offline and they are syncing to the cloud. This, like every other mobile OS, starts from the assumption you are connecting to the cloud to access the data. It is not the exception but is the absolute rule. Buy an Android tablet and see if you can find your remote data on it. Unless you download an app to sync the data, it is cloud resident or it is sitting on local storage but not both. Seriously, what part of SkyDrive was difficult to understand? I would think the name itself pretty much gives it away. Complaining because a cloud based service is cloud based is a major stretch of reason, to put it mildly....
That would be pretty horrible considering we're dealing with 32 or 64 gigs of storage. Backing up an entire Skydrive folder would be murder. Save that for a full blown PC with over 100 GB of storage space.
More like - Welcome to poorly implemented Cloud on RT by Microsoft. DropBox, SkyDrive on Windows 8 and iCloud all keep an offline copy of documents / files so they can be accessed when there no network connectivity.
SkyDrive's limit for free is 7gb and 25gb for old timers. Syncing between an sd card would be fine. This is Windows, not an iPhone. It being RT is just to save power, thus excluding older apps (simplified explanation). MS could make it for RT if they wanted to.
A 32GB surface only has about 14GB free out of the box, start downloading a few apps and it starts to disappear in a hurry. If you know you'll be needing files offline, then just manually download it off skydrive beforehand.