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OneDrive disappears from start menu and also stops syncing
Greetings,
My OneDrive for my Microsoft 365 business account periodically disappears from my start menu, and consequently also stops syncing. This occurs on my laptop, but apparently not on my desktop. Thus, when I try to access my files from OneDrive from another computer, my documents are woefully out of date. When I go to the start menu and search for OneDrive, it is still on the laptop, and when I click to open the app, OneDrive starts syncing again. It would be great if syncing happened automatically so that I don't have to constantly be verifying if syncing is occurring. I have enough on my plate as a business owner. I am running the most current version of Windows 11 on 02/07/22.
For now, I will pin OneDrive to my taskbar to ensure that it is continually working, but it takes up valuable space needed by other applications, and I shouldn't have to do this. Furthermore, when my laptop tells me that syncing is up to date and then I switch to my desktop to work, the files are still not synced. For example, the status of the file in question on which I need to work, is two months old on my desktop, and 12 hours old on my laptop. One drive on the laptop says, "Up to Date" but in File explorer, the whole folder is "Sync Pending".
Any advice would be most appreciated!
Thank you!
- OneDrive runs in the background whether or not you pin it to the Start Menu or Task Bar. Those locations have nothing to do with whether a program is running or not.
You should find the OneDrive icon in the Notifiction tray in the right hand end of the Task Bar, although it may be hidden and need revealing through the up arrow.
Any sync problems should be checked with the OneDrive troubleshooter. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/fix-onedrive-sync-problems-0899b115-05f7-45ec-95b2-e4cc8c4670b2- Thank you. Both blue and white OneDrive icons disappear from the start menu completely. That means that when I click the up arrow to reveal other apps, the OneDrive icons are not there either. When I manually open the app, they suddenly reappear in the start menu, on the bar next to the Wi-Fi icon.
I will try the OneDrive troubleshooter before contacting tech support.
Thank you- I think you're confusing some parts of Windows interface terms so it's not obvious what you're describing.
- The troubleshooter is out of date. OneDrive does not appear under Policies>Windows in the Registry Editor as the troubleshooter suggests.
