My photos directly upload so soon as i take them and they still get uploaded after i moved to 8.1. Also i just directly uploaded a photo using one drive app and it did world any trouble. So I'm not sure what's happening with your one drive app. For about uninstalling and reinstalling the one drive app.
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You can't uninstall it now..well I can't at least.. I was going to check it that way but I couldn't