{"id":170,"date":"2013-12-23T10:33:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T10:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2015-11-24T20:55:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:55:46","slug":"surface-microsofthelps-skydrive-windows-8-1-sync-bug-how-to-replicate-my-problem-with-syncing-tabs-in-ie11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/surface-microsofthelps-skydrive-windows-8-1-sync-bug-how-to-replicate-my-problem-with-syncing-tabs-in-ie11\/","title":{"rendered":"@surface @microsofthelps : #Skydrive #Windows 8.1 Sync Bug – how to replicate my problem with syncing tabs in IE11"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have an issue with my #Surface device (actually I have several, but this is specific to the backup service provided by SkyDrive)<\/p>\n

I think I have found a bug which is quite easy to replicate and near impossible to fix.<\/p>\n

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  1. Create a backup of your device AND make sure that you have \u2018sync tabs\u2019 switched on (and active \/ running IE tabs!) and also make sure the sync is uploaded to the SkyDrive cloud.<\/li>\n
  2. Reinstall Windows from a fresh (make sure you do a complete reinstall \u2013 i had to do this because of the Dec Firmware problem on the Surface Pro 2)<\/li>\n
  3. Name the computer as part of the installation (but name it something different<\/em> to the name before \u2013 I named mine SUR before and altered it to SURFACE on reinstall)<\/li>\n
  4. Login \/ associate using the same Windows ID as the backup created<\/li>\n
  5. It will ask you if you want to install using a previous backup \u2013 click yes and use the last backup.<\/li>\n
  6. Let the backup install and get your PC back up and running<\/li>\n
  7. When finished, go to Internet Explorer and look at the tabs section<\/li>\n
  8. You will see the \u2018old\u2019 name of the PC showing the tabs that were backed up the last time a backup of the PC was taken.<\/li>\n
  9. These tabs can NOT<\/strong> be removed or altered, they just sit there<\/li>\n
  10. Go to SKYDRIVE devices and you will see that the \u2018old\u2019 name PC doesn\u2019t<\/strong> exist so it can\u2019t be removed<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You can\u2019t get rid of the historic tab(s)<\/p>\n

    I have attempted to rename the PC back to its old name but that didn\u2019t work either.<\/p>\n

    I have resulted in completely removing my data from Microsoft, deleting any devices that were backed up in the hope that this will fix it.<\/p>\n

    Another \u201cfeature\u201d brought to us by Microsoft\u2026<\/p>\n

    @microsofthelps \u2013 would appreciate some further guidance on how I can fix this is my full delete option doesn\u2019t work.,.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have an issue with my #Surface device (actually I have several, but this is specific to the backup service provided by SkyDrive) I think I have found a bug which is quite easy to replicate and near impossible to fix. Create a backup of your device AND make sure that you have \u2018sync tabs\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-windows-8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mjsZ-2K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}