Is OneDrive Deleting Newer Files After Backup Restore?

After a BSOD caused by an unsuccessful System Restore, and no way to get back into Win 10, I purchased a new drive and restored a backup image from a couple of weeks ago. In those couple of weeks...

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Rob Nicholson

Brass Contributor

Sep 26, 2019

BTW - if you're using the version of OneDrive that comes with Office 365, there is a feature on there to undo all the bad changes made by OneDrive when restoring an older image. The feature is there in case of mass encryption by a virus like WannaCry or you accidentally made a huge **bleep**-up yourself. You can restore OneDrive back to a point in time - you'll spot the bad changes as they will all have been made at the same time.

David Rollinson

Copper Contributor

Feb 23, 2020

This has happened to me in the past too, and it came as quite a shock when I lost the a months worth of C# source code edits (which ironically I save on Onedrive to make sure I don't lose them) after my Acronis True Image restore. So it seems there is a certain process you should follow when performing a disc image restore. Say everything was good with your computer yesterday, but late in the evening for some unknown reason your computer became unbootable. You decided to go to bed and now today have decided to do a hard drive image restore from a backup done 2 weeks ago. I believe these are the steps to follow:

1. Determine the time when your Onedrive was in a state you were happy with (in this case yesterday).

2. Perform your HD image restore and wait for Onedrive to syncronise (which in this case will regress to files 2 weeks old).

3. Log in to Onedrive and using the timeline facility put your Onedrive back to yesterday's state (your last good state).

Hopefully this should work.

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Is OneDrive Deleting Newer Files After Backup Restore?