OneDrive Developer topics

Unable to restore one drive personal vault file

naman_odeng — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:33:35 GMT

Im trying to restore my onedrive file that I did not even deleted from personal vault I simply renamed it and somehow it got auto deleted

now when Im trying to restore the file Im unable to restore it. You can in right panel it is "Waiting" indefinitely

Please help I need these files urgently. ASAP.

sharedWithMe returns only one item

josuegomes — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:35:28 GMT

A request from a standalone application to the sharedWithMe endpoint returns only one item.

Scopes used for authorization are: files.readwrite.all, group.readwrite.all, sites.readwrite.all, offline_access user.read

When calling the same endpoint Graph Explorer, all shared items are returned.

Result from application:

{ "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#Collection(microsoft.graph.driveItem)", "value": [ { "createdDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:48:46Z", "id": "700DF30854FEF749!sd0cb731281c141acb1bf78fed133f933", "lastModifiedDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:48:46Z", "name": "saĝa-simio", "webUrl": "https://onedrive.live.com?cid=700df30854fef749&id=700DF30854FEF749!sd0cb731281c141acb1bf78fed133f933", "size": 0, "createdBy": { "user": { "email": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "id": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "displayName": "Saĝa Simio" } }, "lastModifiedBy": { "user": { "email": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "id": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "displayName": "Saĝa Simio" } }, "fileSystemInfo": { }

Note that only one item is returned.

Result from Graph Explorer:

{ "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#Collection(microsoft.graph.driveItem)", "@microsoft.graph.tips": "Use $select to choose only the properties your app needs, as this can lead to performance improvements. For example: GET me/drive/microsoft.graph.sharedWithMe?$select=audio,bundle", "value": [ { "createdDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:48:46Z", "id": "700DF30854FEF749!sd0cb731281c141acb1bf78fed133f933", "lastModifiedDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:48:46Z", "name": "saĝa-simio", "webUrl": "https://onedrive.live.com?cid=700df30854fef749&id=700DF30854FEF749!sd0cb731281c141acb1bf78fed133f933", "size": 0, "createdBy": { "user": { "email": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "id": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "displayName": "Saĝa Simio" } }, "lastModifiedBy": { "user": { "email": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "id": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "displayName": "Saĝa Simio" } }, "fileSystemInfo": { "createdDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:48:46Z", "lastModifiedDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:48:46Z" }, "folder": { "childCount": 1, "view": {} }, "remoteItem": { "createdDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:48:46Z", "id": "700DF30854FEF749!sd0cb731281c141acb1bf78fed133f933", "lastModifiedDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:48:46Z", "name": "saĝa-simio", "size": 0, "createdBy": { "user": { "email": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "id": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "displayName": "Saĝa Simio" } }, "fileSystemInfo": { "createdDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:48:46Z", "lastModifiedDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:48:46Z" }, "folder": { "childCount": 1, "view": {} }, "lastModifiedBy": { "user": { "email": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "id": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "displayName": "Saĝa Simio" } }, "parentReference": { "driveType": "personal", "driveId": "700df30854fef749" }, "shared": { "scope": "users", "sharedDateTime": "2025-11-13T19:16:19Z", "owner": { "user": { "id": "700df30854fef749", "displayName": "Saĝa Simio" } }, "sharedBy": { "user": { "email": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "id": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "displayName": "Saĝa Simio" } } }, "sharepointIds": { "listId": "a5aff78d-98ee-4b34-b35b-f4fe365ebd74", "listItemId": "184", "listItemUniqueId": "d0cb7312-81c1-41ac-b1bf-78fed133f933", "siteId": "87dbe7ee-ae0c-4854-82e7-d56d982fef54", "siteUrl": "https://my.microsoftpersonalcontent.com/personal/700df30854fef749", "webId": "9d8b91c3-b0b9-45d1-83e4-17babde0d1dc" } } }, { "createdDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:24:59Z", "id": "D26CADA368C1131F!116", "lastModifiedDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:24:59Z", "name": "Beastie", "webUrl": "https://onedrive.live.com?cid=d26cada368c1131f&id=D26CADA368C1131F!116", "size": 0, "createdBy": { "user": { "email": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "id": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "displayName": "Faerie Graceful" } }, "lastModifiedBy": { "user": { "email": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "id": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "displayName": "Faerie Graceful" } }, "fileSystemInfo": { "createdDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:24:59Z", "lastModifiedDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:24:59Z" }, "folder": { "childCount": 1, "view": {} }, "remoteItem": { "createdDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:24:59Z", "id": "D26CADA368C1131F!116", "lastModifiedDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:24:59Z", "name": "Beastie", "size": 0, "createdBy": { "user": { "email": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "id": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "displayName": "Faerie Graceful" } }, "fileSystemInfo": { "createdDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:24:59Z", "lastModifiedDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:24:59Z" }, "folder": { "childCount": 1, "view": {} }, "lastModifiedBy": { "user": { "email": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "id": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "displayName": "Faerie Graceful" } }, "parentReference": { "driveType": "personal", "driveId": "d26cada368c1131f" }, "shared": { "scope": "users", "sharedDateTime": "2025-11-13T18:41:30Z", "owner": { "user": { "id": "d26cada368c1131f", "displayName": "Faerie Graceful" } }, "sharedBy": { "user": { "email": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "id": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "displayName": "Faerie Graceful" } } }, "sharepointIds": { "listId": "5d31fd1e-38af-4117-b637-c1a0f7d5ca95", "listItemId": "4", "listItemUniqueId": "68c1131f-ada3-206c-80d2-740000000000", "siteId": "74111012-f9e7-4940-ad60-5e53a21e2d3c", "siteUrl": "https://my.microsoftpersonalcontent.com/personal/d26cada368c1131f", "webId": "f1ea2ab8-b5ee-4c93-8ce2-6c12700c226a" } } } ] }

Any tips or suggestions are welcome.

Can a mobile app programmatically trigger the OneDrive mobile app?

filippodevMobile — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:02:21 GMT

Hi,

I am developing a native mobile application (Android and iOS) and I would like to clarify
what is officially supported when interacting with OneDrive on mobile devices.

Specifically, I would like to know:
- Is there any supported way (Android Intent, iOS URL scheme, or similar)
for a third-party mobile app to programmatically trigger the OneDrive mobile app
to create folders or upload files?
- Or is Microsoft Graph API the only supported approach
to create folders and upload files to OneDrive / SharePoint from a mobile application?

I am looking for an official clarification on the supported approach.

Thank you.

Persistent OneDrive File Handler Cache After Removal

DucDao — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:01:27 GMT

I’m a developer supporting an Azure AD application that was previously registered with a File Handler for PDF files (used to display the "Open with Lumin PDF" option in OneDrive’s context menu).

The File Handler configuration was removed on June 19, 2024. However, some of our customers are still seeing the "Open with Lumin PDF" option in their OneDrive UI. This is causing confusion and additional support overhead on our side.

I understand this is likely a caching issue, so I’ve asked our customers to:

Clear the server-side cache by following this guide
Clear their browser cache, re sign-in in a new browser profile

I’ve already tried all possible solutions within my control to resolve this caching issue, but none have been effective. What else can I do to address this?

Suggestion: URL scheme for onedrive synced locations

Jack_Eidsmsness — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:16:28 GMT

For a sharepoint site on the web, URLs are straightforward

https:// ENTERPRISETENANT .sharepoint.com/sites/ SITENAME / LIBRARY

Right now, if you need to coach someone through using a file in a way that requires syncing a folder, it's just a little too difficult. In the interest of making it more possible for coworkers to provide practical instructions to each other, we would really benefit from having a way to link files the implies use of an existing sync or onedrive shortcut, and which falls back to suggest creating a new one.

Currently, we have to hope that our colleagues are using sharepoint site syncing the way that we hope they are, if we want to provide really specific context for things.

e.g. If my relative path is %USERPROFILE%/My Enterprise Tenant name/SITENAME - Documents/project1

someone else's could be

%USERPROFILE%/My Enterprise Tenant name/SITENAME - project1

%USERPROFILE%/OneDrive - My Enterprise Tenant name/Documents/project1

%USERPROFILE%/OneDrive - My Enterprise Tenant name/project1

Suppose we had new updates of OneDrive that set up a URL scheme that gets attached to an executable interpreter, and the interpreter takes what are otherwise the elements of an absolute https URL, but instead of opening a browser, it would compare it against the locally synced path (i.e. information from the "Accounts" settings). If there's a match, it could then link to a location on disk (probably via some kind of consent screen as an intermediate):

-x-ms-onedrivesync://ENTERPRISETENANT.sharepoint.com/sites/SITENAME/LIBRARY/PATH/

If the URL is not represented among the onedrive folders that are synced, so far, then onedrive could propose that the user start syncing this folder, instead.

I really prefer the idea of treating a "onedrive shortcut" and a "sync" folder the same, as long as it's for an equivalent location in the cloud. This got really confusing to explain to people, once the "shortcut" feature was introduced.

Please? It would make things a lot easier.

Does anything like this already exist? Is there a tool or a best practice that IT support at "work or school" organizations are already using to explain and talk about such things?

Local Onedrive files won't open when away from Wifi

itsMonty — Wed, 21 May 2025 11:44:22 GMT

Why can't I open a Onedrive file that is saved to my Surface harddrive when I am away from WiFi. I literally opened the file up while I was with WiFi, so when I travelled to the non-WiFi location, the file would be available, or updated, or not be corrupted, or not do whatever crazy thing it does when it can't connect. Sadly I forgot to plug it in so it had to restart and did an update. When I tried to re-open the file that is literally on my harddrive, it said "Excel cannot open the file because the file format or the file extension is not valid".

This is ridiculous, and not the only time it has happened. Even if my Onedrive sync is up to date, at times when I am away from WiFi, when trying to open a file I get the same report. To be safe, I have made a practice to open the files I need to ensure that they will be available when I am away from WiFi.

If the files are on my computer drive, why can't I open them?? Please give a better solution then me hoping it is going to work every time I go out.

Congratulations, Microsoft products couldn't have been worse even if you tried.

r13i — Mon, 05 May 2025 09:34:40 GMT

I was thinking why should I bother posting about this, who would read it, and would it make Microsoft any better if someone reads this? But the world would never improve if no one reports this kind of bad design. So here we go.

Why make it so hard to sign up for Azure, register an app, set up permissions, register an app in the MDN (whatever the F it stands for), just to be able to connect to build an ETL job that pulls from multi-tenant onedrive.
Why so much text everywhere that it becomes unreasonable to read and find information that matters.
Why pretend you have an AI called Copilot when it doesn't have access to data and all it does is spit back information from the docs.

How to fix this?

Put yourself in the shoes of someone new who's integrating Microsoft products for the first time. No assumptions. No required prior knowledge.
Less text, straight to the point.
No weird error messages with complicated Error IDs. If no one understands them, why bother bloat the limited screen space with it? Why not have an actual AI that can give concrete pointers instead of showing a link to a generic documentation page?

This could go on, but I'm gonna practice what I preach and get straight to the point with the suggestions above.

The only moat Microsoft has is the heavy corporate contracts that bind stupid corporations to use Microsoft products and services. The moment a new provider with simpler/faster/cheaper services shows up, developers and people working day-to-day with Microsoft services will gladly migrate over.

My 2-cent bottle in the sea.

Ondrive Folder ID

Yaseen_838 — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:31:04 GMT

Hi, how do I get the folder ID of a Onedrive for Business folder? Iam doing a Odoo server backup to onedrive, it requires folder id

File close event

ghijdeveloper — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:10:28 GMT

Hello,

I have been looking for finding different technique by which i can know that i file was closed by different users after collaboration. There webhooks, however it send only updated event and there is no webhook event closed or not in use or latest in OneDrive. I want this event take the file from OneDrive and send across some workflow. Is there a way by which this can be done?

Also file will be opened by different user in browser or desktop.

Thanks

Developer

Why did this code quit working.

ritaandti — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:30:59 GMT

Why did this code quit working.

I have 1000+ files that have worked with this code since 2020. All of a sudden 2 days ago, none of them work. What is the reason why it quit working?

Size Discrepancy Between /drives & /root Endpoints

fsdev — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:02:46 GMT

To preface this post, please view the below link.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1257868/microsoft-onedrive-drive-size-is-different-in-driv

When retrieving the total size of a drive via the /drives endpoint - one gets a response as follows.

{ "deleted": 3143, "remaining": 212025579370, "state": "normal", "total": 1099511627776, "used": 887486045263 }

When retrieving the same drive via its /drives/{id}/root endpoint - it returns the following metric.

"size": 75217259136

The 'used' metric matches the Microsoft Admin Center OneDrive usage panel. The 'size' metric matches the actual downloaded size of the drive.

What is the cause for a discrepancy of 800 GB? A response to the other post details, "The difference between the two values is the additional space used by the system." Could I have some specifics of where I could acquire this system data (or at the very least view some metadata for it)?

Thanks!

OneDrive

ash4ok — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:38:27 GMT

I think suggesting for those app of Dropbox and BoxDrive with competitor GDrive IT.

What do I need to connect OneDrive with non-Azure cloud using webhooks?

pawelkam — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:15:07 GMT

Currently, I have a Dropbox shared folder connected with AWS processing pipeline via webhooks. In this setup, every time a user authenticated by Dropbox makes a change in the Dropbox folder, an AWS Lambda is triggered to download the changed file to AWS infrastructure and do some computations there.

Now, our partner requested Dropbox to be replaced with OneDrive, but to keep the existing AWS pipeline for processing.

Thus, a question arises: what would be sufficient to connect existing AWS infrastructure with OneDrive shared folder (after every change to a file in OneDrive the file has to be sent to AWS)?

What should I recommend to our partner for this use case? Especially:

- should I recommend the "OneDrive for business" license?
- is a stand-alone OneDrive license enough to utilize webhooks or are additional solutions like Azure needed?

Please note that the relationship with the partner is a formal one, so I can't change my recommendation. Also, for unrelated reasons I am unable to set up my own account, prototype and check for myself, as I normally would. In the future I will be able to make additional recommendations when specification changes, so there isn't any problem with changing the license to a higher one later on.

Research I've done so far:

- I've read the [OneDrive API documentation on webhooks](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/concepts/using-webhooks), but it is unclear to me what pre-requisites I need to set this up. Especially, is it supported on every license?
- The onedrive-webhooks-aspnet repo on GitHub lists prerequisites, but since the README.md was updated 6 years ago, I am unsure how up-to-date it is. It advises to use OneDrive Personal registered with the Microsoft registration portal or OneDrive for Business with Microsoft Azure Active Directory and Office 365 app registration tool. The links do not work, though.
- There is also a fairly recent guide on rollout.com on implementing webhooks in OneDrive, but it relies on Microsoft Graph. Is Microsoft Graph a necessity?

Any additional links to resources on how to set this up are welcomed :)

Uploading files to OneDrive Personal via API fails when filename starts with "Windows"

Kotsak — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 02:08:08 GMT

Hi everyone,

We've encountered a strange issue with our backup tool that affects random users. Files with names starting with "Windows" (e.g., Windows.gif) fail to upload to OneDrive Personal accounts, regardless of whether we're using:

Simple Item Upload (PUT request)
Resumable Item Upload (POST to create an upload session)

Both methods return a 404 Not Found error.

Details:

Simple Upload Fails after the PUT completes.
Resumable Upload Fails during the session creation call.
No issues with filenames not starting with "Windows."
A similar unresolved issue was reported here.

Sample Request & Response:

Simple Upload:

PUT /v1.0/drive/items/{item-id}:/Windows.gif:/content

Authorization: Bearer [token]

Host: api.onedrive.com

Response:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Payload:

json

{

"error": {

"code": "itemNotFound",

"message": "Item does not exist"

}

Resumable Upload:

bash

POST /v1.0/drive/items/{item-id}:/Windows.gif:/upload.createSession

Authorization: Bearer [token]

Content-Type: application/json

Response:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Payload:

json

{

"error": {

"code": "itemNotFound",

"message": "Item does not exist"

}

Key Observations:

Random Accounts Affected: Issue occurs inconsistently across different OneDrive Personal accounts.
No Request ID: Failed responses lack request IDs, making tracing difficult.
Inconsistent Reproduction: I can't reproduce it on my account, but my colleague can. Uploading the same file via the OneDrive web interface works fine.
Trying to force URL-encode the filename in the request results in the same error

Questions:

Has anyone encountered this before?
Could this be related to reserved keywords or API filtering rules?
Any advice on debugging this further, given the lack of request IDs?

Thanks.

Latest Onedrive IOS update removed direct video record - pls restore!

sparrow_fall1599 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:12:47 GMT

Hi,

A critical workflow for my business is recording videos and taking photos with iphone that upload directly into Onedrive via the IOS App. This feature seems to have been removed in the lastest ios app update. Please restore! And can anyone recommend a workaround?? Please help!

My first post got immediately deleted

Kotsak — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:05:31 GMT

My first post here was a tech question/bug description related to OneDrive API. The post immediately disappeared and I'm not sure if I should just try posting it again.

This is the URL of my deleted post:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/onedrivedeveloper/uploading-file-to-onedrive-personal-fails-when-filename-is-prefixed-with-the-wor/4372557

Upload files to onedrive personal using python on non-interactive method

acr — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:03:21 GMT

As part of my python project, I need to upload a file to onedrive personal folder non-interactive way.

I have created an app registration in Azure provided below API permissions:

Account Type:

Accounts in any organizational directory (Any Microsoft Entra ID tenant - Multitenant) and personal Microsoft accounts (e.g. Skype, Xbox)

API Permissions:

Python code:

import requests # Replace with your details client_id = 'xxxxxx' client_secret = 'xxxxx' tenant_id = 'xxxxx' filename = 'C:/ABB_2025-01-13.csv' onedrive_folder = 'CloudOnly/test' user_id = 'c19d6ba9-e7d1-xxxxx-xxxxxx' # Get the access token url = f'https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant_id}/oauth2/v2.0/token' data = { 'grant_type': 'client_credentials', 'client_id': client_id, 'client_secret': client_secret, 'scope': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/.default' } response = requests.post(url, data=data) token = response.json().get('access_token') # Upload the file to OneDrive headers = { 'Authorization': f'Bearer {token}', 'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream' } file_content = open(filename, 'rb').read() upload_url = f'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{user_id}/drive/root:/{onedrive_folder}/{filename.split("/")[-1]}:/content' upload_response = requests.put(upload_url, headers=headers, data=file_content) if upload_response.status_code == 201: print('File uploaded successfully!') else: print('Error uploading file:', upload_response.json())

Error:

Error uploading file: {'error': {'code': 'BadRequest', 'message': 'Tenant does not have a SPO license.', 'innerError': {'date': '2025-01-14T02:15:47', 'request-id': 'cf70193e-1723-44db-9f5e-xxxxxxx', 'client-request-id': 'cf70193e-1723-44db-9f5e-xxxxxxx'}}}

How to resolve this ?

OneDrive direct download link

ag-dev — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:06:24 GMT

Hi,

We have tried to get direct download link or to access publicly shared drive file with Graph API .

It seems that the the URL structure has changed as well as the API.

The thing behind the API is that i cant access file though https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/shares/{sharedDriveItem-id}
this endpoint since when i get the link and try to encode it to get sharedDriveItem-id the response is that the

"The sharing link no longer exists, or you do not have permission to access it.".

Anyone has any idea how to get direct download URL from initial public share URL give by someone?

Thank you.

personal account can't search files

harrison222 — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:31:05 GMT

hello，recently I found that personal account can't search files by GET /me/drive/root/search(q='{search-text}') . I am sure the target file exist in OneDrive. I can access it by GET /me/drive/root/children. is anyone know why and how can I solve it?

here are my personal account testing result screenshot:

the folder named "Documents" is exist.

and the search result is a empty array

also, here are communications records in Microsoft Q&A：

https://learn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/answers/questions/2133894/onedrive-rest-api

some account can't upload files to Onedrive.

underwood — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 04:51:46 GMT

Some previously created accounts cannot upload files to OneDrive, but newly created accounts can.

The uploadurl for the old account is“ https://my.microsoftpersonalcontent.com/personal........”,while the upload address for new account is “https://api.onedrive.com/rup/........”,and I didn't send the Authorization header and bearer token when i issue the POST or PUT call. I only send it when I issue the GETcall.is anyone know why and how can I solve it?