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Deleted files/folders reappear as they are synced back online from client OneDrive
So here we are years later and this is still happening. For example, I have a onedrive personal folder open on the desktop (windows 10-1909) in one window and the company onedrive open in another. If I cut a picture from the personal onedrive folder and paste it into the other, it appears to work as expected, but several seconds (the time depends on the size of the file) later, it reappears in the personal onedrive folder. If I repeat the exact same procedure, and click to overwrite the files that are now in the target folder, the files will stay deleted from the source. I have several windows 10-1909 clients as well as an iphone all syncing my personal folder. I was organizing files for a couple of hours and it did not start happening until hour two. I am guessing this is some kind of rudimentary problem but the specifics of how to recreate it escape me. Perhaps its time related or perhaps it occurs when the files are enumerated and thumbs created? The sync engine decides if a file is the same somehow, right? perhaps if the time and date is rounded to the nearest minute first it would help? or maybe a hash should be created or a semaphore?
If you are still around, did you ever get MS help or find out how to work around the problem?