OneDrive creates an alias instead of storing files at different location
I want OneDrive stores my files at a different location. I chose and set it up normally, as Microsoft's guided. But when I go to my desired location, I see this: OneDrive didn't store my files at my chosen location at all and creates an alias instead! how do I make OneDrive actually stores my files at my desired location? Thank you! PS: my Mac is running the latest version of macOS Monterey and OneDrive
Have 1TB available but OneDrive wont upload and says "Not enough cloud storage"
I bought Office365 today and I have only 3gb on my account used out of over 1TB of space however when I try to sync it just says "Not enough cloud storage" "you don't have enough space for this file". This is very frustrating. I check my settings, I emptied my trash, I re-linked the account. None of it worked. I went through the Troubleshooting machine and did all the steps and nothing helped. I did get an error saying one drive could not be restarted. Anybody have any suggestions? Very frustrating to spend money and have this happen.
Why does OneDrive have access to regedit??? Lost my files!!!
I had 2 hard drives installed in my PC, one SSD 120GB as my operating system drive and one 1TB HDD for my data. My HDD is starting to fail for some reason (maybe because of old age) as it now sometimes disconnects for no reason and I have to disconnect and reconnect the SATA cables for it to start working again. Fearing the worst, I installed a new 2TB SSD, and everything went smoothly. Since I have such a huge amount of space in my new 2TB drive and my operating system drive is beginning to lose space (I have only 5GB of storage left in my operating system drive), I decided to move my user file folders to my new SSD. Again, everything went smoothly. Then I decided to reconfigure my OneDrive. My OneDrive was pointing to one of my HDD drives, so I want to migrate it to my new SSD. The migrate part itself gives no problem, but the main problem is when OneDrive asked me if I want to backup my user folders to OneDrive (folders such as Documents, Downloads, Videos, Desktop, etc). I admittedly didn't really read this thoroughly and I went ahead and clicked OK without really understanding what it wanted to do. Quickly realized afterwards what it wanted to do and I decided that I didn't want that. So, I canceled it. (I don't really remembered how I canceled it, maybe it was from the backup folders menu) Again, at this point disaster hasn't occurred yet. Everything was still normal. However, something strange happens: I originally set up my OneDrive folder to be in X:\User\OneDrive. That is, it's in my new user folder that I've just migrated previously to my new SSD. However, for some reason, it also creates a new folder in X:\OneDrive. Now, I have no idea what's going on here, but I don't want OneDrive to be in that path, so I deleted that folder. Little did I know, that OneDrive edited my registry and changed Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders. In that entry, it changed folders such as Documents to X:\OneDrive\Documents... which I've now deleted. And for another reason that I have no goddamn idea why, the new documents folder, which I've migrated from C:\User\Documents to X:\User\Documents, HAVE BEEN WIPED OUT OF EXISTENCE. I NEVER DELETED THIS DOCUMENTS FOLDER. I'VE USED A PC FOR OVER A DECADE AND I HAVE NEVER DELETED MY DOCUMENTS FOLDER. Obviously I didn't delete it, so my number one culprit is OneDrive, as I suspect that backing up the user folders will also, for some reason, move the entire folder to OneDrive (???), and if you think that those files maybe are backed up in OneDrive, I've checked and there's nothing but the reflection of my tears. This is probably because I quickly canceled the user folder backup before it actually had time to back up those files. Now there are a lot of weird stuff happening here, all related to OneDrive and maybe it's because of misconfigurations on my part, but my question is, WHY DOES ONEDRIVE HAS ACCESS TO EDIT WINDOWS' REGISTRY??? WHY WOULD I EVER WANT MY USER PROFILE PATH TO BE POINTING TO MY ONEDRIVE CLOUD FOLDER??? I've never had a problem with OneDrive for 4 years since I've had this account. Now I'm deleting it with a bitter taste.Weird serious problem with shared folders in personal Onedrive after windows 10 update.
Hi there, Last week my PC got updates from MS for windows 10 , and after the reboot my Onedrive local client started doing weird things deleting folders and renaming them to names with -COMPUTERNAME behind them. My setup is as follows: I'm logged on to my own Onedrive In my Onedrive I have shared folders with data that other family members in a family subsciption shared with me. There is a lot of data in them, some have 660Gb of pics and videos. I added those shared folders to my Onedrive, so I can access them in my own explorer without logging on to another account. This setup has been working fine for years, up until this MS update... I noticed after the reboot that my Onedrive Personal client was deleting a lot of folders from the local Onedrive folder on my harddrive, but only the folders that have the shared offline data, they were in the recycing BIN. I tried to re-connect the Onedrive but nothing changed, the online view in my Onedrive was still intact , including the shared folders from other Onedrives, but locally these were gone. So at that point I saw a different file structure online compared to the one in my own Explorer. I then tried to restore them from the recycling bin, only to find out that Onedrive would rename them to 'ORIGINALNAME-WIN10' where WIN10 is my computername. It then started uploading all this data AGAIN to my online )storage, the 'shared (Gedeeld) folders were copied into my own drive with the label 'private' behind it, but that is absolutely not what should happen, my own drive would have been full within a day if I didn't break off this operation. Here you can see a screenshot of what was happening, while it was still 'syncing': I tried re-installing and re-connecting the Onedrive client, and also removing all the extra copies of the folders online AND offline, hoping it would resync the whole thing from the Original online shared folders. The shared folders just don't turn up anymore in my local view. Instead the Onedrive client started renaming even more shared folders that seemed untouched before, and uploading the contents to my own Onedrive.... So to make it absolutely clear what happened: the shared folders that were only in the Cloud didn't turn up locally anymore, the shared folders that were on both sides were renamed locally and copied back to the cloud as a new private copy folder (as you can see in the screenshot). Did MS change something with the last updates that forces shared data to actually be taking up space in your own Onedrive, where this was not the case before? Or is this just something that went corrupt on my own PC and can I fix it somehow? I can't imagine them changing something that has such an impact without any warning since it causes a lot of trouble for people using shared folders and also a LOT of network traffic if everyone with shared folders gets into these issues.... I hope some real expert on Onedrive can tell me what is going on, and esp. how to fix it? To be honest, this seems a PRETTY SERIOUS issue if other have it too... ;) Marcel
How to transfer all photos from OneDrive into a hard drive?
Need to transfer all photos from OneDrive into a hard drive. I'm almost running out of space on OneDrive, and I want to find a way to quickly download all of them somewhere, before deleting them from the cloud. Thing is, it seems like I have to scroll and drag click all of the photos; 3 years worth of them, which is really tedious to do. I was wondering if there was an easier way to just download all of them somewhere? Note that this isn't about the OneDrive files, it's the OneDrive photos section, which I don't think you could sync to your computer. I'm using a MacBook Air M1 2021, if it helps. Thanks!one drive doesn't appear to be syncing files to my new PC desktop
Hello, I have a new PC I am trying to download files to one drive, I put select always save on device but nothing appears to be happening? can you someone help. Are my files downloading because I cannot locate anything. I did the whole save to device like 5 times and nothing is seems to be downloading if the files are I don't know where to find them.
OneDrive is soooooooooooooooooooooo slow!
Why is OneDrive for Business so unacceptably slow? I've had a case open with Microsoft Support since February and to date they have involved several different teams, run numerous diagnostics and tests remotely on my computer, but still haven't been able to improve let alone resolve the very poor download speeds we are getting across the company. They can see the issue with their own eyes, and the under-performing tests are appearing in their diagnostic logs, but for whatever reason they cannot fix their own systems! We have a fibre-optic leased line, 100Mbit over a 1Gbit bearer. Running a speed test, I am getting the full 100Mbit up and down, and yet when I am downloading a file (whether it's a few MB or a few hundred MB) from OneDrive, the download rate hovers between 500Kb/s and 800Kb/s. Uploading the OneDrive for Business is fine - the upload rate is between 7Mb/s and 9Mb/s. It's just the download rate that's the issue. Whenever any of our users save anything to OneDrive and the document is no longer cached, they have to wait for what feels like an eternity for the file to be downloaded before it can be opened. If they're opening the file via an application, then that application will hang and stop responding until the file has been downloaded from their OneDrive. Before we switched to Microsoft 365, we hosted everything locally. Anything we tried to open would do so almost instantly. But using OneDrive feels like we have travelled back in time to the days of 56K/ISDN. If this is how OneDrive has been designed, then it should not be labelled as a business service. There are other solutions out there from competitors that outperform OneDrive, and unfortunately if these issues are not resolved soon, I doubt we will be the only business who migrates away from OneDrive or even Microsoft altogether.
