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Why am I not able to find my recently created folders in OneDrive or my file Explorer?
Sean_P_s3016183 Hi Sean, you definitely need to find a video or documents that explain to you the different symbols used by OneDrive to indicate whether files are visible, local, or "required to be local" (ie "Always keep on this device" See for example: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-do-the-onedrive-icons-mean-11143026-8000-44f8-aaa9-67c985aa49b3
It sounds like there is some problem with the way that your OneDrive client is running on your computer. You should run through the troubleshooting steps set out here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/fix-onedrive-sync-problems-0899b115-05f7-45ec-95b2-e4cc8c4670b2 which may involve shutting it down and re-setting it.
Sean_P_s3016183 I have two PCs. One had a similar problem with "onedrive files are only displayed in the https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedrive-recent-files-are-not-showing-on-folders/2fd8667f-1c46-48f3-9b02-02760a49a6ed, not in the root onedrive folder" and the other PC was ok. The bad PC has too many processes running and browser tabs open. By Restarting the windows 10, it fixed the problem. Now I can see them in both OneDrive My files and the recent folder. They are sync'ed with the local OneDrive Documents folder.
I've also had this problem with the onedrive app on my phone because it doesnt show my current files and folders from 2023 or 2022 that I have on my computer in my Onedrive it just shows files and folders that I had created and saved in 2021 this is really annoying so if there's any way to fix this please tell me cause this is frustrating.