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Old Onedrive storage location on External HD causing problems with Windows apps on laptop
Hi Everyone, Until a few months ago, I used to work in an organisation, where I was given an office laptop linked to a Microsoft Onedrive account ("Official Onedrive"). I had set up a personal external HD (Per-HD1") to act as a storage location for this Onedrive account. Periodically, I would connect this Per-HD1 to my personal laptop, open the Official Onedrive, and it would sync my office data to the Per-HD1 in a sub-folder called "Sync-latest". I also had a personal laptop, an HP 2009 model, where I had built up, over the years, a sizeable inventory of personal documents. Other personal documents were saved on another external HD ("Per-HD2"). And lastly, I also used to have a personal Onedrive account since many years, which I used for storing some random news cuttings, etc, consuming less than 20% of the Onedrive allowance of 5GB. A few months ago, I left that organisation. At this point, (a) my office data was saved in Per-HD1 (b) my personal data was saved partly in the 2009 laptop, partly in my Per-HD2, and partly in my personal Onedrive. As I wanted to buy a new personal laptop and trade-in my old 2009 laptop, I copy-pasted my personal data from my old 2009 laptop to Per-HD1. I then bought the new personal laptop, loaded with MS Office 2021 Home & Student Edition, Windows 11, and simultaneously traded-in the old 2009 laptop to the seller, after formatting the hard disk. I then did the following: a) CUT-PASTED my personal data from Per-HD1 to my new personal laptop's C drive under "Documents" folder b) CUT-PASTED my last office data from the "Sync-latest" sub-folder in my Per-HD1 to my new laptop's C drive under "Documents" folder. Just to re-emphasise, the "Sync-latest" sub-folder on my Per-HD1, is the external hard drive location, where I used to sync my office data from my Official Onedrive. c) created a few more Word/Excel documents in my personal Onedrive. So now, my documents are spread out as follows: Some are in my personal Onedrive Some others are in my C drive under "Documents" Some others are in my Per-HD2 My Per-HD1, which does not contain any of my useful or relevant documents any more, but which is the source of the problem, now looks as shown below: CANNOT PUBLISH THE SCREENSHOT, LET ME KNOW HOW TO, SO THAT YOU GET A CLEARER IDEA OF THE PROBLEM The three folders shown in the red box above, have the following contents: 1. The "Sync-latest" folder has the following two (lowest level) sub-folders: (a) "Desktop" as shown below - which contains shortcuts to some personal documents (not from my old employment) which are located either in my personal onedrive, or in my Per-HD2, and whose shortcuts I created and sent them to the desktop of my personal laptop. CANNOT PUBLISH THE SCREENSHOT, LET ME KNOW HOW TO, SO THAT YOU GET A CLEARER IDEA OF THE PROBLEM and (b) "Screenshots" as shown below - which contains the screenshots that have been copy-pasted on this page, as shown below: CANNOT PUBLISH THE SCREENSHOT, LET ME KNOW HOW TO, SO THAT YOU GET A CLEARER IDEA OF THE PROBLEM As you can see, the "Sync-latest" folder on my Per-HD1, which used to earlier contain my synced office data from my Official Onedrive, and from where I had cut-pasted all my office data to my personal laptop's "Documents" folder, is still somehow "active" and contains the shortcuts that were created on my personal laptop (how??), as well as screenshots that I take from the screen snipper application on my personal laptop (how??) !!!! 2. The "OLD BACKUPS" folder contains my superceded office data 3. The "OneDrive Temp" folder looks as shown in the screenshot below: CANNOT PUBLISH THE SCREENSHOT, LET ME KNOW HOW TO, SO THAT YOU GET A CLEARER IDEA OF THE PROBLEM I noted that the above strangely numbered sub-folders were created at the time of the last syncing of my office data with Per-HD1 on the dates indicated. I recall running into some sync issues back then, but then was able to somehow (no idea how) ensure that all my office data was properly synced and available on Per-HD1, before I returned the office laptop. I have noted that deleting these sub-folders causes some unexpected problems, so restored them back from the Recycle Bin. So the PROBLEMS which require an urgent resolution are: 1. If I do not connect Per-HD1 to my personal laptop before starting it, OR if I delete the "Sync-latest" folder in Per-HD1, two major things happen: (i) each and every app on the home screen as shown in the screenshot below (in red boxes) disappears, but if I shut down the laptop, reconnect PerHD1, and then restart the laptop, these apps re-appear on the desktop and taskbar. CANNOT PUBLISH THE SCREENSHOT, LET ME KNOW HOW TO, SO THAT YOU GET A CLEARER IDEA OF THE PROBLEM (ii) none of the documents using MS office (Word, Excel, PPT, etc) can be opened, regardless of where they are stored - C drive, PerHD2, or personal Onedrive. NB: Non-MS Office documents, eg. PDF, wherever stored, can however be opened 2. If I delete the "OneDrive Temp" folder, some problem happens, whose details I have forgotten, and do not want to re-create the problem for fear of losing access to my data. In sum, as you can see, it looks like Per-HD1 has somehow got a "stranglehold" on my personal laptop, due to the fact that it used to be my Official Onedrive sync location. I need to, without losing any data, delink Per-HD1 from my personal laptop, otherwise I will have to forever carry Per-HD1 around with my laptop wherever I go. Just in case it is relevant to the issue, I had delinked my official Onedrive account from my new personal laptop, before giving my office laptop back to the organisation. And I had also delinked my old 2009 laptop from my personal Onedrive account. So now, my personal Onedrive account is linked only to my new personal laptop.
One Drive processing over 75K changes (Macintosh)...
This morning I noticed my One Drive folder in my DocK start to "jump" every 10 seconds or so. I investigated and the One Drive app was processing over 75K changes. I have not touched any file on my One Drive in a few weeks. I upgraded to the latest Mac OS Sequoia Beta about 1 week ago (not the one that just came out yesterday). This is odd behavior, IMHO. It doesn't look like there are any changes to the files, or changes to the update dates. I believe if MS or Apple changed something in the meta data of a file, that that changes might cause this behavior. Or if you "reset" OneDrive. In either case it is processing changes that are really not changes to the files, correct? I also read that MS is adding (unwanted in my opinion) AI features to 365. Could that be causing some behind the scene changes? Weird. Bryan
Onedrive continously signing out
Hi, I wondered if anyone can help.... Onedrive used to sync files from MS Teams Sharepoint like a dream until about 10 days ago. Now the desktop client seems to drop connection constantly as though the network is droppoing or firewall is blocking things.... Before I started there, I thought I would ask if anyone else has had this recently.... Nothing I do makes OneDrive stay signed in.... I have already ensured my Dell 7310 is fully up to date on Bios and software. Signed out of MS Teams, O365, Onedrive Cleared cache from C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\OneDrive Full shutdown, restart, login everywhere and OneDrive signs in sees 15 changes and signs out..... I have even unlinked the laptop, done the above again, relinked the laptop, it syncs and then signs out..... Has anyone got any ideas??OneDrive: Autosave disabled when opening files from OneDrive folder
Hi, On my latest M4 MBP with latest MacOS, Autosave is disabled when I open shared Excel files from the (local) synchronized OneDrive folder. Excel asked to upload file to OneDrive. If I do this, it overwrites the existing file and Autosave gets enabled, but only until I open the file again from the (local) OneDrive folder. If I open files via Excel from the cloud, or from the OneDrive website, Autosave is enabled and stays enabled. Thet means the issue occurs only when I open files from the local synchronized OneDrive folder. Mac Version 15.2 and OneDrive version 24.226.1110.0004 OneDrive and all Microsoft APPS have full disk access I tried already unsuccessfully: Reseting OneDrive Uninstalling and Re-Installing OneDrive Deleting and Re-Installing Office365 OneDrive in "files on demand" and local download mode How can I fix it?".tmp.driveupload"
I am having an issue where my word doc (set to autosave to OneDrive business desktop app) on my PC is suddenly saved in a ".tmp.driveupload" folder online under a different file name (random numbers), with autosave switched off. If I do not notice this happening, the change to the document is not saved under the expected folder and file name, resulting in no change made to the file I opened. The only workaround I've found is to "save a copy" and overwrite the file I opened in the original folder. This only works if I notice the sudden name change and file save in the tmp folder. If I don't, the changes are lost because the tmp file is deleted (to recycle bin) on exit and the tmp folder is not synced to my PC. I have to go online to the OneDrive business website, guess which file it may be, restore that from the OneDrive recycle bin, and hope it is the file I was looking for. The frequency of this happening means that there are numerous tmp files under pseudo file names to scour through. One-hour plus on the phone with MS Office subscription support is of no help.OneDrive / Android automated camera roll back up without sync
Hello I am unsure if this is a Microsoft or Android issue so apologies if this isn't the place. I wish to have my Android (s21) camera roll automatically back up to OneDrive but without the two syncing together. If I wish to delete a photo from my phone I do not want this to delete from OneDrive but currently they do and I cannot find a solution to just have the camera roll back up without the sync in place. Is anyone able to produce a dummies guide to achieving this as I am not grasping other instructions I have found online. Many thanks for any assistance.
Opening OneDrive files from Finder on Mac does not enable Autosave like on Windows.
Hello all. I am having an issue with using OneDrive on Mac. If I open a file, say a Word doc or PowerPoint, on OneDrive through Finder, the Autosave feature will not be on by default. If I do the same action on Windows through file explorer, it opens with Autosave turned on. When I try to turn on Autosave in Word, it prompts me to upload a new version onto OneDrive. This would make a new copy. And that new copy, if opened from Finder, still will not have autosave turned on. However, when I open the file from within the Word application or Excel or PowerPoint, autosave is turned on automatically. I would like for files opened from my OneDrive folder in Finder to open with Autosave turned on by default. This is how it works on Windows.OneDrive is forcing users to login to upload content
All the settings appear to be correct so what is going on? As soon as they click the upload button they are forced to login and they don't have an MS account. This is not a cachine issue as I've tested it in EDGE with my gmail account and I never use edge This is for simply sharing a folder to others to contribute too.
Onedrive is asking users to sign in to upload
I have setup the proper security so I'm super confused on why an external user, non m365 is required to sign in to upload a file. After I setup the blow settings I share the link from the Copy Link button. it's not a caching issue. It's happening for me in edge which i never use and other users devices
