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Joe McGowan
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Feb 07, 2020

Restore your OneDrive and the sync client

I have a lot of questions about the "Restore your OneDrive" functionality.   If I kick off a restore of my OneDrive, how does that affect the OneDrive sync client?  When the restore is complete wil...
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Joe McGowan
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Feb 08, 2020

My main concern is what happens with the OneDrive sync client.  Will it upload the corrupted files again after the restore?

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gacarini
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Feb 27, 2020

Joe McGowan When you restore, that will revert back to a previous version of the files and the sync client will download those. It will not upload the corrupted files again, assuming there isn't something that corrupts them again on the device, in which case that would be seen as a new change after the restore. Does that help?

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