I’ve posted this in Microsoft’s forums, but in case anyone else is running into this issue, I’d like to know…
Situation:
– I have a home security camera. All motion detected photos are saved to a folder on a home machine, located in my local SkyDrive folder. I forgot to clean up this folder, so there were hundreds of thousands (~90 gigs) of files in the individual daily folders in this folder.
– On SkyDrive.com, to speed up the delete process, I deleted all folders I no longer wanted. Remember, this is 90 gigs or so. I figured this would delete those files from my home machine.
– Upon deletion, SkyDrive started copying all those deleted files to *every connected device’s Recycle Bin*, including my Windows tablet with its scant 32 gig drive!!!
– Now all my machines’ primary drives are filling up due to the Recycle Bin being filled by SkyDrive. This is especially troubling on the tablet, which is crashing often due to being out of space as it fills up every 30 mins or so, syncing over WiFi. No, I don’t have SkyDrive set to sync any folders to that device.
– All machines are running Windows 8.1. The tablet came with 8.1, and the desktops and laptop were upgraded to 8.1 from 8.0.
Bug:
– If a file is deleted on SkyDrive, it should not immediately be transferred to all connected devices. This is especially true for tablets.
Solutions / Workarounds:
– None known.
– Feature request possibility: This should be a feature that can be enabled or disabled, and disabled by default.
– Fix: Microsoft should disable the copying of deleted files to all connected devices, and come up with a better solution for handling this scenario.
I’m looking forward to feedback, as this has caused tremendous amounts of trouble in my ability to use Windows devices. It’s almost pointless to have a Windows tablet, since my online SkyDrive activity is not cognisent (sp?) of what device types to which its connected.
Thanks,
-Auri
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