Anyone understand SkyDrive?

[jaystarter]

I have installed the SkyDrive desktop prog to my laptop (Vista) and desktop (Win 7). the Idea is I have a spreadsheet that I input new information throughout the day. I thought that if I altered the document on 1 computer it would sync with the other computer so that whichever I used - laptop or desktop - the spreadsheet would show the up to date changes.
I have the spreadsheet in the documents folder in the main SkyDrive folder. I've tried various sharing options but cant get it to work, I must be missing something.

[HansV]

Make sure that the SkyDrive application is running - files will only be synchronized with the cloud if the desktop application is active.

See How to Sync Files & Fetch Unsynced Files with SkyDrive and SkyDrive on your computer.

[jaystarter]

I don't get it, skydrive is always running on both computers.

[HansV]

Strange - with that setup, files in the SkyDrive folder should indeed be synchronized automatically between all connected computers.

If you can't get it to work, I'd try Dropbox instead - it works flawlessly for me, and I find its web interface easier to use than that of SkyDrive. The basic version (limited storage) is free.

[Roderunner]

Hi Jeff, I have SD app installed on both my pc's with the SD folders on D: drive. If I add or change anything on 1 pc it gets copied to the other providing I wait for the changes to get updated before shutting down.
I suggest you access your SD account directly with your browser. Select your pc's one at a time then click as in the red box. You will then be asked to re sign-in on both pc's. If you have used the default location, use it again.

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[jaystarter]

Tried signing out, signing in, fiddling and messing all to no avail. I don't know what I've done wrong but I've downloaded Dropbox and it worked flawlessly straight away. I was drawn to SkyDrive for the 7GB of free space but I'll make do with the 2GB from Dropbox for the time being.

[jaystarter]

Update on this.

For some reason this morning my laptop flashed a pop up asking me to sign in to my SkyDrive account - which I did. Hey presto everything then synched. Dropbox seems so much simpler in layout to use though, so using that in preference at the moment

[Roderunner]

Tried signing out, signing in, fiddling and messing all to no avail. I don't know what I've done wrong but I've downloaded Dropbox and it worked flawlessly straight away. I was drawn to SkyDrive for the 7GB of free space but I'll make do with the 2GB from Dropbox for the time being.

Hi Jeff, if I remember correctly, sending invitations to other email addresses, real or not, will give more gb's to Dropbox storage.