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OneDrive stuck on "Processing 7 changes" for weeks. Can't identify what the 7 files are.
After upgrading from windows 10 to 11 and reinstalling onedrive several weeks ago, it got stuck "processing 7 changes".
It was actually more than 7 at first, but I was able to find some of the files that were stuck and deleting them reduced the number to 7.
But now I can't find the last 7 that are stuck processing. The files I managed to find had the wheel icon that indicates they are syncing, but I can't find any more files with that icon now. I have thousands of files in thousand of folders/subfolders, so I can't manually check every folder to see if a file has the syncing icon.
Other than that everything seems to be working. Onedrive syncs new files and downloads files on demand correctly. It's just that "processing 7 changes" message never goes away.
If Onedrive named the files it was trying to process, I could easily go to them and delete or replace them, but there doesn't seem to be a way to identify the files.
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“Processing 7 changes” doesn’t necessarily mean seven identifiable files are stuck uploading. It can include pending sync operations, so you may not find seven files with spinning arrows.
To check without opening every folder, open your OneDrive folder in File Explorer and search for *. Switch to Details view, enable the Status column, and sort by it. This can help bring files marked “Sync pending” together, although it won’t reveal OneDrive’s internal processing queue. Also check the OneDrive cloud icon for any listed sync problems.
Since new files sync normally and this started after the upgrade/reinstall, resetting OneDrive’s local sync state is a reasonable next step. You don’t need to keep deleting files.
Press Win + R and run:
%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe /reset
If Windows cannot find it, try:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive\OneDrive.exe /reset
Open OneDrive from Start if it doesn’t restart automatically. Resetting doesn’t delete your files, but OneDrive will check them all again, so allow time for that to finish. If you previously selected only certain folders to sync, you may need to select them again.
Before resetting, copy any files you know haven’t synced to a separate folder outside OneDrive. Avoid deleting more files just to reduce the counter—those deletions can also sync to the cloud.
