How to Force Onedrive to Synchronize?
I Have a New Clean Installation of Windows 10. After Logging in Using My Microsoft Account, My Onedrive Folder (Ie the Onedrive Folder in My Users Folder)...
I have a new clean installation of Windows 10.
After logging in using my Microsoft account, my OneDrive folder (ie the OneDrive folder in my Users folder) shows:
But right-clicking the OneDrive icon and selecting View online shows:
The latter is the correct one and is what I see from another PC's OneDrive folder signed on to the same acocunt.
Obviously there is something wrong with the synchronization. How do I fix it or how do I force a synchronization?
I suspect the problem came about because I saved a file to the Asus folder with the exact same name that already existed in that Asus folder. The error message complained and asked me to delete it. That's what I did, but the red x refused to go away, and the OneDrive folder won't show the correct content.
At this point, I am not interested in syncing any folders on my PC, other than the OneDrive folder.
3 Answers
Solution:
onedrive.exe /reset
onedrive.exe is located in %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\.
To resolve the issue you can try these solutions:
Solution 1) Disable Files on demand option
Go to Options => Files on demand => unselect Save space and download files as you use them
In my situation it was caused the issues with onedrive synchronization by this option.
Solution 2) When you have Files-on-demand grayed out and you can disable GPO Policy:
Disable the option in GPO policy:
Solution 3) When you have Files-on-demand grayed out and you cannot disable GPO Policy:
This allow you to sync main directory and sub directories:
You can try to Disable in the registry (but it might be overwritten in future by GPO update.
set: FilesOnDemandEnabled to 0 in this branch:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive
For my case, I have tried this to commands:
%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe /shutdown
start %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe /background
Inspired from this answer.
If you need to reset/update OneDrive, I have check this link:
%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset
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