{"id":2532,"date":"2013-10-25T07:39:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T07:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2013-10-25T07:39:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T07:39:36","slug":"what-to-do-if-skydrive-disappears-from-windows-8-1-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2532-what-to-do-if-skydrive-disappears-from-windows-8-1-explorer.html","title":{"rendered":"What to do if SkyDrive disappears from Windows 8.1 Explorer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the scenario. You are working away in Windows 8.1 and want to save a document to SkyDrive. You look for the SkyDrive link in Windows Explorer but it is not there.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t panic; your documents are most likely fine and you can get to them in the web browser via http:\/\/skydrive.live.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Still, that is inconvenient. How can you restore the Explorer link, other than by rebooting and hoping it reappears?<\/p>\n

The solution is to open a command prompt (press Start button and type command) and then type:<\/p>\n

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%systemdrive%\\windows\\system32\\skydrive.exe<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

and press Enter. You don\u2019t need to run the command prompt with administrator rights.<\/p>\n

All going well, SkyDrive will reappear:<\/p>\n

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What if it doesn\u2019t? Now you have to check the logs or event viewer and look for specific errors. But the simple technique described first has always worked for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the scenario. You are working away in Windows 8.1 and want to save a document to SkyDrive. You look for the SkyDrive link in Windows Explorer but it is not there. Don\u2019t panic; your documents are most likely fine and you can get to them in the web browser via http:\/\/skydrive.live.com Still, that … Continue reading What to do if SkyDrive disappears from Windows 8.1 Explorer?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,97],"tags":[586,832,996],"class_list":["post-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-windows","tag-microsoft","tag-skydrive","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}