OneDrive topics

I cannot sync Samsung Gallery with OneDrive

Mikibaka — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:59:18 GMT

I recently changed my password to outlook and since then my photos sync between gallery and onedrive stopped working. It says I need to sign in again. I did so, I got logged in with the work flow and then I can see only half empty screen asking for permissions between Samsung account and Microsoft. I cant proceed or do anything else than just close the app.

It's galaxy S25 ultra, 8.5 one UI. Checked on my other device and it's exactly the same.

Screenshot is here:

https://imgur.com/a/D87FNP3

OneDrive app synchronisation

NijntjePluis — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:48:34 GMT

I added a folder last night to my OneDrive on my computer. It synchronised to the cloud. If I share the link to this folder, it works perfectly. However, if I open the app, the folder does not show (even after 24 hours). Searching for the folder name (which takes forever btw) yields the right folder.

Why is the folder not visible in the place where it should be?

And why does the search yield zillions of results instead of just 1?

With subscription, does recycle bin second stage show preiously deleted items

waynrayn — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:48:13 GMT

Hi There:

I've filtered through a good portion of the discussions, but have not seen this particular question Sorry if I missed it: I have a basic non-business OneDrive account. A couple of days ago I deleted a file in the recycle bin by mistake. With this basic account, I do not have access to Second Stage. If I started a temporary Microsoft 365 subscription or business account, Second Stage should then be accessible. My question is, would I be able to see previously deleted files in Second Stage, or would it be empty by default since it is a new subscription?

one drive folders either have red x's next to them or have disappeared

126 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:55:34 GMT

folders have wither red x's next to them or disappeared. the ones that are left are now empty. and of course, there is no one at microsoft to help. what happened and how can this be fixed

red x's and missiing data and folders on onedrive

126 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:53:04 GMT

my onedrive folders have x's next to them or have disappeared. the ones that are there are now empty. what happened and how do i fix

11 thousand sync errors!!

jtoddh — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:54:56 GMT

Hi everyone,

I've been struggling with an issue in Onedrive for the past couple of days. I think (but can't be positive) that it started when I tried to 'free up space' on my desktop PC. Since then a large number of files have been flagged with a red "x" with the error message that "the name or type isn't allowed". The files in question range from .pdf to .docx, .stl, etc. There doesn't seem to be any obvious reason why I'd suddenly get this message, and none of the files contain restricted characters. Also, I can download the files without issues, and that seems to clear the 'x'. I guess one solution is to go through and download all these files, but there are 11k such files. Yeah, hoping for another solution.

To date I've tried pausing and unpausing the sync; unlinking and re-linking my account; deleting the cache files; deleting and reinstalling Onedrive. Onedrive was also crashing regularly, though reinstalling seems to have at least fixed that for the moment. For what it's worth, I'm also syncing to my laptop, without issue (though won't be 'freeing up space' anytime soon :) ). Everything also seems fine online.

I guess I could just leave it, as the files do seem to download ok, but this feels really flaky and I'd really like to resolve the issue.

Sorry for the long post, and thanks for any advice anyone might have.

OneDrive for macOS documentation issue. DefaultFolder plist example is missing array wrapper

KacperM — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:43:16 GMT

Hi everyone,

The Microsoft Learn documentation for configuring the OneDrive sync app on macOS currently contains an incorrect plist example for the DefaultFolderLocation setting.

Documentation page:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/deploy-and-configure-on-macos#defaultfolderlocation

In the “DefaultFolderLocation” section, the current plist example shows the DefaultFolder key as a dictionary:

<key>DefaultFolder</key>

<dict>

<string>(DefaultFolderPath)</string>

<key>TenantId</key>

<string>(TenantID)</string>

</dict>

This format does not work correctly when deployed as a managed preference/configuration profile.

The setting starts working when the DefaultFolder dictionary is wrapped in an array, like this:

<key>DefaultFolder</key>

<array>

<dict>

<string>(DefaultFolderPath)</string>

<key>TenantId</key>

<string>(TenantID)</string>

</dict>

</array>

Please update the Microsoft Learn documentation to include the array wrapper in the DefaultFolder plist example.

The current Microsoft Learn example is confusing because administrators may deploy the documented plist exactly as shown, but the setting does not appear to work correctly until the array wrapper is added.

How to modify which folders to backup on android onedrive app

Mahesha999 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:59:01 GMT

Currently my Android OneDrive app backs up photos from many different folders as can be seen in screenshot below in section "Back up device folders". How can I modify this list? It seem it ends up backing up screenshots too which I will like to remove along with many other unknown folders. Here is the screen shot:

https://i.postimg.cc/9M98hGsM/image.png

(I uploaded to another since this forum's thread editor kept saying "Media upload in progress. Try again in few moments.)

OneDrive Taking up space on C: even when nothing is being kept on device.

Jiblin — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:44:45 GMT

Recently got a new device and had all my files on the previous device synced to my OneDrive. The C drive has about 120 GB of my data (including OS) but when I check my Disk space, I only have 5GB remaining out of 256. However, OneDrive seems to be taking about 150 GB on the disk even though all the files have the cloud icons on it.

OneDrive Sync Error code: 0x80004004

rramdath — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:35:59 GMT

I have a user with sync issues getting Error code: 0x80004004. It will not let me disconnect Onedrive to reconnect it. There is no work or school account tied to the device. Attempted to connect account but did not resolve the issue. Already tried to repair but that did not work either. I ended all OneDrive processes and refreshed the File Explorer and no changes. Not sure how to fix the issue. Its a local user, no domain. Account has a standard license.

One Drive options disappeared in file explorer

gdufault — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:38:07 GMT

As a small business we change the color of folder in our one drive so everyone knows the status without having to dig into the folder to figure it out. We have been able to right click the folder and go to "One Driver" and there was a folder color option. That option is no longer there. We can still go to the web app and change the color which does change in file explorer but this becomes a real pain when you are doing a bunch of these every day. I have done a lot of things I have found online but still can not get this option back. It has vanished from multiple computers as well as every account on my computer. This does not see to be a server side issue but rather an issue with the newer release of One Drive from what appears to be released last week. How can we fix this or is there a way I can go back to a previous version of One Drive where it worked?

Synchronisation d'un fichier impossibel

AB31 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:51:21 GMT

La synchronisation de OneDrive ne se fait pas sur un fichier dont le nom serait trop long. Le problème est que jene trouve pas ce fichier autant par l'explorateur windows que par une commande cmd !!!

Quelqu'un a une idée pour que je puisse supprimer ce fichier, qui m'est inutile...

Getting rid of unwanted shares

IndTint — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:39:14 GMT

Hello everyone. On my company computers there is a name listed under "People" and this individual has shared a file with me (by mistake I assume). Through a lot of digging I finally found out he is an attorney and it was paperwork from some case he had worked on. I don't know him and whatever the docs are have nothing to do with me. The secretary I talked to didn't seem to care and said, "I don't believe it's confidential. Just ignore it." I don't want to ignore it! Every time I log on there it is. It's intrusive! And before you all say just hide it, No, There should be a way to not automatically accept unwanted shares.

Temp Files Flagged As Viruses By Norton - Windows 11

jkreski — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:24:01 GMT

My Norton anti-virus software keeps quarantining temp files from my onedrive setup folder as containing viruses. This happens every few minutes. Any thoughts on what this might be from? All files seem to be synced and I am just doing normal browsing and Word processing.

Has OneDrive abandon the download speed?

giannisgeo — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:29:37 GMT

When i hover on the Onedrive button , all I see is this "Downloading Files (Percentage)"

Where have the uploading and downloading speed gone

OneDrive - Wer ist Eigentümer der Daten

Megenagna75 — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:52:11 GMT

Seit mehrere Jahren nutze ich OneDrive. 1. Wie kann ich alle Daten herunterladen? 2. Auch wenn ich heruntergeladen habe, bleiben Sie doch trotzdem auf OneDrive gesichert. Wer ist Eigentümer der Daten?

Serious Abuse of Microsoft/OneDrive Email Infrastructure for IRS Phishing Scam

anshumanSaha — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:58:55 GMT

I want to report a very serious phishing/security concern involving what appears to be Microsoft/OneDrive email infrastructure.

On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 11:03 PM, I received a phishing/scam email pretending to be an IRS tax notice. Today is May 17, 2026, and I am posting this because this issue is extremely concerning and could easily fool many users.

The alarming part is that the email was sent from:

email address removed for privacy reasons

The email contained fake IRS-related warnings such as:

“URGENT: UNVERIFIED IRS 2026 TAX DOCUMENT”
“Final Reminder”
“Immediate Attention Needed”
“Review Tax Document”

It attempted to pressure users into clicking a fake “Review Tax Document” button.

What is deeply concerning is:

The sender appears to come from an official Microsoft domain (notificationmail.microsoft.com)
The branding and formatting look legitimate
Non-technical users could easily trust and click this
AOL itself displayed a security warning and disabled the links

My questions to Microsoft are:

How is it possible for phishing emails to originate from or appear to originate from notificationmail.microsoft.com?
Is Microsoft infrastructure being abused?
Were compromised Microsoft/OneDrive accounts used?
Why are such emails passing authentication checks strongly enough to appear legitimate?

This is not a normal spam message. This directly impacts trust in Microsoft notification systems and can lead to credential theft or malware infections.

I hope Microsoft investigates this seriously and explains how such abuse is possible from a Microsoft-associated notification domain.

Users should:

Never click such links
Verify tax notices only through official government portals
Carefully inspect email headers and domains
Report suspicious Microsoft-branded phishing emails immediately

Blair Glennon almmicrosoft Microsoftyan

Search

Belinda-P — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:18:09 GMT

The Onedrive search is not working properly.

I have a file called "Vegetarian moussaka recipe.docx" stored in Onedrive (created 9/4/26).

When I search for this word in the Onedrive.com website on my laptop (Windows11), or on my Onedrive phone app it is not found, even though if I look for it manually, by going to the folder on Onedrive.com, it is clearly there. When I do the same search in File Explorer on my laptop it does show the file.

An odd thing is that I then created a copy of the file, called: "Vegetarian moussaka recipe copy.docx", this is an exact copy and this one IS found, but not the original.

I have contacted Microsoft support about it, and sent recordings, data etc as requested, but they don't know the answer. They have just told me to use a "workaround" which is just to use the copied version of the file instead of the original.

Since then I've discovered another file this has happened with, called: "Tuscan chicken with beans.docx, created 9/5/26) this also doesn't show in the search in Onedrive.com but does show in a file explorer search. If I copy the file to my Desktop, without renaming it, it DOES show in the Onedrive.com search.

Interestingly, the similarity between this file and the other one (Vegetarian moussaka recipe.docx) is that I created both files on my computer (Windows 11) by copying text from an internet page. (But I tried recreating this just now by creating a test and that file behaves normally).

backup only one folder

anuj9122 — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:45:25 GMT

How to backup only one folder in onedrive?

Since April 16, 2026, OneDrive no longer syncs any new .lnk files

RaphBM — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:01:29 GMT

Hello, I have a strange issue with OneDrive and Windows shortcut files (.lnk). Since April 16, 2026, OneDrive no longer syncs any new .lnk files I create. All .lnk files created before that date still sync normally. Every new .lnk file immediately shows the “–” status (Not syncing). The target file is inside OneDrive, fully synced and available locally. Older .lnk files in the same folder sync correctly.

The problem persists after full OneDrive reset, clearing cache databases, full resync of about 200,000 files, Windows 11 reinstall (Home, Pro, Insider), Windows 10 test on another PC, Smart App Control disabled, no third‑party antivirus. The issue is identical on all devices.

The problem started exactly on April 16, 2026, right after several Smart App Control warnings that blocked opening documents through newly created shortcuts. Since that date, no new .lnk file has ever synced again, while all older ones still sync. This makes me think that a Defender cloud reputation flag or something similar may have been applied to my account and is now blocking new .lnk files at the server level.

Could someone from the OneDrive team please check whether my account has a cloud security flag or reputation rule incorrectly applied, and reset it if needed? This issue has been going on for almost a month and prevents me from using shortcuts in my OneDrive structure.

Post‑scriptum: Thanks to Copilot for helping me through multiple Windows resets and reinstallations to rule out every local cause. This message was also written with its assistance to request help from the community.