I have been successfully using Skydrive on my home and work pcs for a few months now, but a week or so ago, something seems to have spontaneously broken on my home machine. More precisely, on that computer, the SkyDrive tray icon always reports being up to date and the "last updated" time changes normally, but no new or modified files are ever being synced, despite showing the "blue spinning arrows" when seen in explorer. I can confirm that these files are not being uploaded to the web skydrive app, nor to my work pc. Conversely, files created on my work computer are being normally uploaded to the cloud, but do not get automatically downloaded to my home computer.

However, if I exit (tray icon > exit) skydrive and launch it again, suddenly all "stuck" files get properly uploaded/downloaded to my home pc. This seems to indicate that upon starting, SkyDrive "manually" checks for modified files and uploads them, in order to ensure consistency with the cloud versions, yet afterwards, it relies on some kind of hook into explorer to be advised of modifications? Anyway, if that's the case, then that hook is broken somehow.

Other info:

I never received any error message whatsoever.

I did not do any changes to my system configuration around or since the time the problem appeared.

I tried rebooting and re-installing skydrive, both to no avail.

I checked on this forum and saw other people having the same problem, with no working solution.

The "view sync problems" option is greyed out.

I have admistrator permissions (but using UAC).

Using complete (not selective) sync on both pcs.

I tried disabling "upload files in batches", but there was no change.

I'm starting to lose hair over this.

Thanks for your help,

doorjuice