Skydrive folders attached to drive???

bunny slippers

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I have 8.1 on an SSD 128 GB with some nominal programs. It seems, no, it is suddenly filling up. I have 17 GB left. The other day had over 60 GB remaining, then it got smaller and now the 17. After some poking around and thought, it seems that my making a backup image of this SSD with 8.1 and my other SSd with Windows 7, and putting them on Skydrive, it is somehow attached itself to my physical drive. In the Skydrive folder, these two folders have an attention icon on them. What does that icon mean and could these folders (whose total GB just about equals what I have lost recently) have become associated with the physical SSD?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8,1 64bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    custom build
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 3820 Quad
    Motherboard
    ASUS p9X79 Pro
    Memory
    Corsair 1600C9 Vengeance
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    Browser
    Cyberfox
    Antivirus
    Avast pro
How to save large files (bkup images) to Skydrive?

Think I see what the problem is to my previous posts. Skydrive is not letting me download any files larger than 2GB and both system backup images (I have Win 8.1 and 7 on separate SSD's) have certain files exceeding this max amount. Is there any way around this so as to get these two images off my SSD and free the space?

bs
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8,1 64bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    custom build
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 3820 Quad
    Motherboard
    ASUS p9X79 Pro
    Memory
    Corsair 1600C9 Vengeance
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    Browser
    Cyberfox
    Antivirus
    Avast pro
Is your user profile folder on the SSD as well? I set my user profile folder to a non-ssd drive, this reduces the number of writes and will stop something filling up a small SSD. I thought skydrive stored a copy of the files locally and synced any changes, thus allowing access if your internet is down.

I stopped using skydrive, because there are much better alternatives out there, I've never had much luck with skydrive plus it won't work in my office. I use WHS, so that handles my backups, but if I didn't, I would never backup OS images to the cloud, I would use an external hard drive, so it's easy to restore and doesn't require an internet connection to do it.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit with Media Center
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    Intel i7 2600k @ 4.4Ghz @ 1.30v
    Motherboard
    Asus P8P67 Deluxe
    Memory
    Corsair Dominator GT DDR3 16gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    2 x ATI HD6970 (Crossfire)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG E2251 x 3 - 22"
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung SSD 840 Pro, 250Gb
    Seagate Barracuda 500Gb x 3
    PSU
    Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 1000W Modular
    Case
    Coolermaster HAF962
    Cooling
    Megahalems
    Keyboard
    Logitech K520
    Mouse
    Logitech Performance MX Mouse (Darkfield)
    Internet Speed
    120Mb Down/12Mb Up
    Browser
    Firefox 39.0
    Antivirus
    Kaspersky Total Security
    Other Info
    Logitech 5.1 Speaker System
    Logitech T650 Touchpad
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