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Uday_Kumar9999
May 16, 2024Copper Contributor
SOS --HELP ON RECOVERING DESKTOP FILES WHICH VANISHED
Hi, I was facing sync issues of some files on my desktop to One Drive...To address this I unlinked my One drive but to my horror saw that all files in various sub folders on desktop vanished disappea...
Mike Williams
Steel Contributor
Uday_Kumar9999 My guess is that your OneDrice was set up as files on demand. So when you unlinked OneDrive, the files that were stored only in the cloud vanished from your desktop.
Login to OneDrive via web. Your files are likely there
If the files are important then BACK THEM UP. Synced cloud storage is not a backup.
Uday_Kumar9999
May 16, 2024Copper Contributor
Mike Williams thx for responding unfortunately on doing what you advised I still see only the folder names but files are missing😞