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Onedrive re-downloading old file versions
I have desktop PC, with HDD installed
Running Windows 10
Onedrive desktop app installed and operational on startup
Target location of Onedrive is aforementioned HDD
The upload and resync is regarding the Onedrive app in the taskbar notification window, opened to watch the status of mu uploads which go from
Uploading - "Filename"
I then sit and wait the inevitable
Downloading - "Filename"
which is the same exact file but pre-keywords attached. I have to monitor this in this way as when I modify lets say 250 files, it will upload all 250, then a few moments later a sporadic 23 will download again and get into the aforementioned loop where by i have to manually find those fiels in windows explorer, drag them onto a separate hard drive, wait for onedrive dock to say
Deleted - "Filename"
then modify the file on the new drive, then re-add the file via windows explorer, watch onedrive icon sync file into location, wait 10 minutes to confirm changes have stuck
So it isn't via a web interface besides the fact that it is in essence what the onedrive dock is presumably as it uploads into a web based storage? but the process is all done via explorer in the Onedrive folder created during intial install of Onedrive onto my PC.
There's still a lot of gaps in the story. I'm not yet concerned about what the OneDrive app is doing in the taskbar. I am trying to determine the step by step process by which _you_ are updating the files as there are many possible paths to do this.
It's still confusing as it appears you are manually deleting old local synced files, (or at least moving them from outside of OneDrive) and then replacing them with files of the same name?? Why not just overwrite the old files so it is clearly a replacement version of the old file, rather than a possibly distinct different file of the same name?
Mike Williams Ok, apologies, didn't really think of any other ways of using OneDrive to what I'm doing. This is all done in the route OneDrive folder, on my PC. Set up during installation of Windows through the OneDrive wizard and is always edited via the explorer folder direct. And also happens when I edit aon the backup hard drives and then copy across the newer file into the OneDrive one also.
So it's via windows explorer one a Microsoft windows PC. In the original folder configured when setting up OneDrive on fresh install of the PC, in D/OneDrive
Then open this online folder (all files available offline so exist on HDD) navigate to, as an example Christmas 2023 folder. I want to tag these photos with Christmas 2023 plus additional information of location and people in the keywords.
All of this is via windows explorer, I open the folder, select all the 100 photos, click on "Add Tag" in the preview panel with all other metadata and fill in the data en mass. 100 photos tagged, at source of OneDrive in explorer as Christmas 2023.
Then begin the upload to OneDrive. Let's say modified files are May 4 2024. These sync to onedrive.
A few moments later OneDrive will redownload 5 of these photos, date modified 1 Jan 2024. No keywords but the exact same photo file name meta data only keywords are missing.
I can then focus on 1 of those 5 files and every change will be locked into undoing on OneDrive any changes from that date, rotation in windows photo viewer, filename change or keyword tag via windows explorer. It just won't edit the file without physically removing it from the OneDrive folder so that OneDrive syncs the deleted change and then re-adding the file as a whole new file
(This is the 2nd time typing on my mobile as the page refreshed so apologies if it feels a little blunt)
- I'm sorry but rather than being blunt I'm getting a lot of unrelated descriptions about OneDrive installation and post sync, and then the detail of what YOU do is omitted I think you need support from someone sitting next to you and making notes.
- Apologies Mike. Having reread my previous reply I can see that where I thought I had written more detail on using the windows explorer window I had glanced over that and can see where I had omitted stuff. I was trying to type this up on my mobile as away from home for a few days and the page reloaded a few times while trying to type it up.
Sorry that I was blunt and hopefully my last reply has more detail. I assumed most people would access files via windows explorer and therefore omitted that step but understand that being useful to understand where the issue might be arising. But agreed showing someone the process and what OneDrive is doing would be easier than trying to explain it (badly) here. So I'll just keep doing what's working in an albeit clunky manor