Windows Photo Gallery on 2 machines with SkyDrive (desktop) sync

02. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: ,
I'm encountering an issue where I'm using WPG on 2 machines with photos stored in a location that is synchronized by SkyDrive between the machines.  The problem is that everytime I switch to the other machine and open WPG (2012 v. 16.4.3508.205), apparently a large number of the photo files immediately get changed resulting in a huge sync push (in my case 2.1 GB of data for 700+ files changed) by SkyDrive.  I work in IT and have done some investigating using the SkyDrive Logs stored in AppData/Microsoft/SkyDrive/Logs/, and I'm pretty sure this comes down to changes that get applied to People Tags each time WPG is opened.  I can see that for some reason, some of my people tags have slightly different names on one machine vs the other - for example, the prime culprit seems to be "Vika Uzhakova" on one machine vs. "Viktoriya Uzhakova" on the other.  The problem is that I can't change it on either machine!!!  Very frustrating!  The "Rename Contact..." context menu item appears but is disabled on both machines.  Where does this People Tag/Contact information come from, and how can I edit it to make it consistent.  I have verified that both of these Windows 8 Pro machines are connected to the same social network services and have identical contact information records for this person in the Windows 8 People App, the Windows Live Mail Contacts, and online in the LIve.com People app.  Does anyone have any idea how to:

1.) Edit the contact information used by Windows Photo Gallery to make it consistent between machines
2.) Prevent WPG from automatically updating hundreds of files each time it opens, causing a massive bandwidth crushing sync through SkyDrive.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts or ideas.

MS:  You need to do something about this - its much more than just a minor inconvenience.

Dave

Subscrption expired cant renew

02. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com
My subsciption appears to have expired.  I have filled in endless forms on line, gone round in circles for two days, asked for an email to be sent to my husbands account as I am not receiving very important communications.  My family friends etc keep being told their messages could not be delivered.  I am not ver compurter literate and have tried everything with no success.  I left messages for someone to contact me but no one has.
CVan someone PLEASE help.  I posted on forum yesterday about no emails but again have had no replies.
Thankyou in advance for anyone willing to help me.

E-mails show but canno access

02. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com

When I open Outlook, My folders and e-mails recieved are shown, but the little box to the left of the emails is missing and I cannout open/delete,move, any e-mail. How do I get the little boxes to display?

Alan

Outlook Plus – will the sidebar disappear?

02. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com
Hi,

I was wonder if the sidebar in the right side of the inbox will disappear if you subscribe to Outlook Plus? Or is it just the ads that disappear, but the sidebar remains with other content than ads?

I think these two photos will describe what I mean:
- With sidebar: http://blogs.office.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Components-ImageFileViewer/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles-00-00-00-00-55/6014.Outlook_5F00_Inbox_5F00_AdFunded_5F00_550x3095.jpg_2D00_550x0.jpg

- Without sidebar: http://www.microsoft.com/global/en-us/news/publishingimages/ImageGallery/Images/Slideshows/2012/Outlook_Inbox_AdFree_Print.jpg

Thanks in advance!

can you save email from outlook to a jump drive?

02. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: ,

I was used to saved my emails confirmation of payment or other to an external drive. Now i cannot even see the option to save a file can anyone help

thank you

Cannot add Dutch holidays calendar to outlook.com; wrong URL?

02. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com

Have tried to add the Dutch holidays calendar to my outlook.com agenda. I deleted it inadvertently.

 

I used these steps: http://windows.microsoft.com/nl-nl/windows/outlook/calendar-holiday-other    and am give the folowing url to subscribe to:
webcals://calendar.calendar.live.com/calendar/Nederlandse feestdagen/calendar.ics

 

Then I get an error message saying the URL is not correct.

 

What is the right URL?

 

Thanks!

Help i can’t receive emails from instagram ???

02. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com
i cannot receive the Reset Password email from Instagram. I have tried all the suggestions with no success.  Can you look into my account, please?

I have Photo Gallery files, taken w. 2 cameras, on the same date.

02. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com
When I view by the date 4/17/13, I get one set of photos, then a set of photos from 4/27/13, and then the other set of photos for 4/17/13.  How do I merge the two 4/17/13 sets of images?
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