Win 8.1 SkyDrive on Lenovo Helix laptop

Question

I am trying to sync files between SkyDrive on my Win 7 desktop and my Win 8.1 laptop. This worked very well in Win 8. In Win 8.1 it does not work.
* I have right-clicked SkyDrive in File Explorer, and chosen to make the files available off-line. There is zero information about whether this choice is propagated down through the directory tree, but I assume so.
* The operation of SkyDrive appears as extremely sluggish: when I click in the directory tree of SkyDrive, a green progress bar appears at the top of the window. Depending on the number of directories and files in the chosen directory, the progress bar uses
from seconds to minutes/hours to complete -- before directories and files eventually are marked as being available off-line. The time use appears to be the same whether I have visited the particular directory before, or not. This gives a very strange impression
-- it cannot take that long time to find out that files are available off-line???
* A large number of files appear to be not available off-line, even when they seem to be marked as available. I have dozens of image files of various types linked into my word processor. The some of these files are downloaded, others not. The ones that are
not downloaded, do not appear in the word processor. If I double-click on the files to manually (?) download them, a progress bar appears saying that 0% of the file has been downloaded. Then nothing happens, until I'm informed about error code 0x800705B4,
and that my that the download was stopped due to time out.
Upgrading to Windows 8.1 has virtually made my expensive, new Lenovo Thinkpad Helix *unusable*. I use Win 8 64-bit, and log on the the system using my Microsoft account (I assume... I have set up the computer and SkyDrive using my hotmail account.)
A working solution should be provided ASAP, and I should not have to be a computer scientist to interpret the answer!

Answer 1

Belie
Here are the rather comprehensive steps to trouble shoot the issue.
Basic trouble shooting
How do you sync your Onedrive?
Are you having issue syncing your Onedrive to your computer or mobile devices?
What is the version or operating system of the device or computer you're syncing with Onedrive?
Are you getting any error message?What are the recent changes made prior to the issue?
Does issue occurs on all your Onedrive files or just on a specific file?
Can you edit your file via Onedrive web?
What are the exact steps you did on how you're trying to edit your files on 8.1 Onedrive? Is it via the Onedrive client or the modern Onedrive app?
Is your PC connected properly to internet and not on a metered network?
Could you confirm if the Onedrive Sync Engine continues to run and doesn’t continue to crash? To check, Go to Task Manager, ensure "Sky Drive Sync Engine Host" process is running.
On your Onedrive app, are there errors at the top of the screen or top right corner? (Top right corner error is a link that opens the “Progress” view page. )
Are there any icons on your Onedrive client on file Explorer  that indicate errors (i.e., yellow triage, red x).  If there’s an error icon, look for the error at the bottom of the file explorer window or right click on the Onedrive and select
“View error” and opens the modern Onedrive app “Progress” view page
If the above doesn't help then
Restart your system
Confirm that your computer is able to access the internet and is not on a metered network.
Confirm that the Onedrive Sync Engine continues to run and doesn’t continue to crash. Go to Task Manager, ensure "Sky Drive Sync Engine Host" process is running.
When viewing through Onedrive app: Launch the Onedrive app and look for errors at the top of the screen or top right corner. Top right corner error is a link that
opens the "Progress" view page.
When viewing through the Onedrive Desktop (File explorer view): Click on the Onedrive node and look for any icons that indicate errors (i.e., yellow triage, red x). If there’s
an error icon, look for the error at the bottom of the file explorer window, or right click on the Onedrive, and then select View error which opens the
modern Onedrive app "Progress" view page.
Verify if the files being uploaded do not exceed the 2GB file limit in Onedrive client (Windows Explorer).
The file has a name that is not supported. Rename the file to a valid name.
Finally you can run the Onedrive  troubleshooter.
Wanikiya and Dyami--Team Zigzag