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Analisa Hadfield
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Sean_P_s3016183 If the files/folders are visible in the web view of OneDrive, and not locally on your computer, it is possible that you have selective sync. Go to your OneDrive folder and right-click to get Settings. In the dialog that comes up, under the Account tab, click the Choose folders button. In the next window you will see if all or only some of your folders are being synced.
If the folders that are "missing" are visible but not checked then check them to make them available via File Explorer. Word is locating the online version of the files, but they are not synced locally.
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Mike Williams Hi Mike, thanks for your reply. I did what you had suggested, opened my settings from my OneDrive folder, under the Account Tab, i clicked on the link to "choose folders" and i could see that all of the folders were already checked, so in theory they should have synchronized automatically but they did not. I thought i would try login to the web version of my OneDrive and see if i could synchronize from there and I have now began the sync process. It seems to take an awfully long time to synchronize by the way! It's been about 15 minutes so far and the one folder that i had added now appears in my local hard drive version of my OneDrive but in the "status column" next to the folder, it shows a cloud icon saying that the file will be "available when online". I'm never not online, so i'm confused as to why it's saying that. In addition to this, the older files that i had saved already locally and were previously synchronized with my onedrive, are showing an icon with a green, circle and and check/ tick inside of that circle. Does that mean that those files were originally saved from my device/ laptop and then synchronized later to my OneDrive? Also, does the cloud icon, which says that the status is "available when online" mean that because i've only ever saved the file from the web version of my One Drive, that there will never be a literal locally saved version of this on my hard drive?
The reason why i'm asking is because i would rather have everything saved locally on my device/ laptop hard drive and then i would like to have the option to be able to access my files on my One Drive as well. In order to do this, would i have to ensure that i save everything originally to my device/ laptop One Drive locally and then make sure that in my settings that my locally stored One Drive folders sync with my web version of One Drive?
Sean_P_s3016183 Hi Sean, you definitely need to find a video or documents that explain to you the different symbols used by OneDrive to indicate whether files are visible, local, or "required to be local" (ie "Always keep on this device" See for example: -us/office/what-do-the-onedrive-icons-mean-11143026-8000-44f8-aaa9-6...
It sounds like there is some problem with the way that your OneDrive client is running on your computer. You should run through the troubleshooting steps set out here: -us/office/fix-onedrive-sync-problems-0899b115-05f7-45ec-95b2-e4cc8c... which may involve shutting it down and re-setting it.
Next, OneDrive is a virtual drive. Basically, there are files in the folders you can't see, as they are in the management software that creates the files and folders for you to see. One of the "features" of OneDrive is that it won't synch files currently open. That's nice, until it makes a mistake. If the folder you are working from is opened by someone else and you attempt to move that folder into a sub-folder within the original folder, it will appear just fine right there. Then when you check on another machine through the cloud, the folder that has the file opened somewhere else won't show up. Sometimes there is not really something open and OneDrive believes it is open. I am not sure why. It could be a bug in their management software. Regardless, some synchs do take some time, 15 minutes or so, no matter what you do and you can't force them any faster.
Sean_P_s3016183 I have two PCs. One had a similar problem with "onedrive files are only displayed in the recent folder, not in the root onedrive folder" and the other PC was ok. The bad PC has too many processes running and browser tabs open. By Restarting the windows 10, it fixed the problem. Now I can see them in both OneDrive My files and the recent folder. They are sync'ed with the local OneDrive Documents folder.
I've also had this problem with the onedrive app on my phone because it doesnt show my current files and folders from 2023 or 2022 that I have on my computer in my Onedrive it just shows files and folders that I had created and saved in 2021 this is really annoying so if there's any way to fix this please tell me cause this is frustrating.
Hello all,
This is an issue I've had for ages, and can't seem to figure out. I have an external MicroSD card running through an SD to USB converter, and its recognized as (F:)
I need to actively back up and sync the files from a folder on that drive to OneDrive, though, here's the problem: Every time I try to copy it over, it informs me of a lack of space. The folder is 75ish GB's, and I only have a 128 GB (C:) drive with just over 18 GB's left. I can't clear the space up without formatting the disk, it's just not possible.
My question is, how would I go about backing up AND syncing the folder with OneDrive, without having to make a copy.
I was able to change the settings so the files are not stored locally, however, once you click on a file in File Explorer, then it downloads locally. Is there a way to stop the downloading when you click on the file or is the only way with the right-click then View Online?
Yes, the files only download locally if I double-click them. So then if I no longer want them locally I have to right-click "Free Up Space"? I am just curious as we are going to have several users that will share and edit files out of a Team OneDrive and I don't want a bunch of local copies on each users C drive.
Vasil Michev
Still confused. I have a lot of crucial data on my PC D: drive. I tried to put into the OneDrive cloud as a backup and to be able to access it from elsewhere. It ended up putting a lot of it, but not all, on my C: drive, who knows why. I now have two versions of some of the data. This poses a serious dilemma. It doesn't seem to sync but I'm afraid that if I delete the C: drive version, it will also delete the critical D: drive version. I just don't understand OneDrive at all. It promises so much but delivers a hotchpotch. Can someone please explain it in plain English, not computer jargon?
Bobapingu I am in the same boat. I would like OneDrive to mirror my C: drive and serve as a backup, instead I think I also have two or three versions of the same data. Also, every time I change anything in a file, OneDrive immediately begins to process the changes. This is great for small files, but when I am working with >1GB rasters is ESRI ArcMap OneDrive consumes my college-budget internet.
Brandon4121
I feel your pain. OneDrive appears to be a poorly thought through concept intended to push everyone onto cloud storage. That meant someone else holds all your private and intellectual property. Despite all the security safeguards, when you die, who gets to own your IP? Your next of kin? No, they won't know where to find it if they even know it exists. Possession is nine tenths of the law and Microsoft possesses it. Adobe and others are doing the same thing with photographic IP.
I have a lot of photographic data and private correspondence that I keep on an internal D: drive. This gets backed up on an internal E: drive and the E: drive is mirrored onto an external X: drive. I thought I could simplify matters by using OneDrive, exactly as you thought. Not so! I found I had the same data in triplicate on OneDrive, the C: and D: drives and never sure which was the latest. In frustration, I checked every file for age, deleted the older files and kept the latest on D: drive. So effectively I'm now happily out of OneDrive. I must say, this was my third failed attempt to use OneDrive. I may still be paying for the 1TB of storage that I never used. That still needs to be checked.
It is taking up most of my space on my C drive. I wanted to temporarily backup Onedrive from the C drive to a thumbdrive because I am going to move onedrive to a larger hard drive, and I do not trust that Microsoft will loose my data somewhere in the process. The problem is when I backup the data from C drive to the thumbdrive, instead of copying the data from C drive, Onedrive wants to download the data from the cloud. With the nearly 1 terrabyte of data I have stored there, it is going to take 40 hours to download and use up my monthly allotted amount of data I can download from my internet provider. I am trying to figure out why it is trying to download it from the cloud if I am copying it from my local C drive. If I turn off the network and try to copy it from the C drive, it tells me that an unknown error has occurred. Then when I move onedrive to another drive, it is going to try and download the 1 terrabyte of data again. What a truly stupid system.
Yeah, so many things bug me about Microsoft, Please don't get me started. I even received my MCSE and a few other certifications from them back in the 90's and early 2000's, and I still fight with their over bloated Windows that does not always work right. For example, my search, cortana, news, DTS, and a few other Microsoft apps always stop working at random times on all my computers. Anyway, I finally got my onedrive moved to another drive but never made a backup to a USB. I was frustrated with Microsoft again and needed a place to voice my displeasure. Thanks for the response.
There may be cases in which you may want to keep local copies of some or all of your OneDrive files. As long you have enough storage space on your local hard drive and the content is not restricted from being synced by Information Security policies, then this can be easily done. You may also find this useful to ensure you have a local copy so you can work with files when you will be offline (i.e upcoming snow day or working remotely in an area with poor internet connectivity).
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If the folders that are "missing" are visible but not checked then check them to make them available via File Explorer. Word is locating the online version of the files, but they are not synced locally.
download files from onedrive to local drive
Download File https://t.co/sjpoju9m0m
Mike Williams Hi Mike, thanks for your reply. I did what you had suggested, opened my settings from my OneDrive folder, under the Account Tab, i clicked on the link to "choose folders" and i could see that all of the folders were already checked, so in theory they should have synchronized automatically but they did not. I thought i would try login to the web version of my OneDrive and see if i could synchronize from there and I have now began the sync process. It seems to take an awfully long time to synchronize by the way! It's been about 15 minutes so far and the one folder that i had added now appears in my local hard drive version of my OneDrive but in the "status column" next to the folder, it shows a cloud icon saying that the file will be "available when online". I'm never not online, so i'm confused as to why it's saying that. In addition to this, the older files that i had saved already locally and were previously synchronized with my onedrive, are showing an icon with a green, circle and and check/ tick inside of that circle. Does that mean that those files were originally saved from my device/ laptop and then synchronized later to my OneDrive? Also, does the cloud icon, which says that the status is "available when online" mean that because i've only ever saved the file from the web version of my One Drive, that there will never be a literal locally saved version of this on my hard drive?
The reason why i'm asking is because i would rather have everything saved locally on my device/ laptop hard drive and then i would like to have the option to be able to access my files on my One Drive as well. In order to do this, would i have to ensure that i save everything originally to my device/ laptop One Drive locally and then make sure that in my settings that my locally stored One Drive folders sync with my web version of One Drive?
Sean_P_s3016183 Hi Sean, you definitely need to find a video or documents that explain to you the different symbols used by OneDrive to indicate whether files are visible, local, or "required to be local" (ie "Always keep on this device" See for example: -us/office/what-do-the-onedrive-icons-mean-11143026-8000-44f8-aaa9-6...
It sounds like there is some problem with the way that your OneDrive client is running on your computer. You should run through the troubleshooting steps set out here: -us/office/fix-onedrive-sync-problems-0899b115-05f7-45ec-95b2-e4cc8c... which may involve shutting it down and re-setting it.
Next, OneDrive is a virtual drive. Basically, there are files in the folders you can't see, as they are in the management software that creates the files and folders for you to see. One of the "features" of OneDrive is that it won't synch files currently open. That's nice, until it makes a mistake. If the folder you are working from is opened by someone else and you attempt to move that folder into a sub-folder within the original folder, it will appear just fine right there. Then when you check on another machine through the cloud, the folder that has the file opened somewhere else won't show up. Sometimes there is not really something open and OneDrive believes it is open. I am not sure why. It could be a bug in their management software. Regardless, some synchs do take some time, 15 minutes or so, no matter what you do and you can't force them any faster.
Sean_P_s3016183 I have two PCs. One had a similar problem with "onedrive files are only displayed in the recent folder, not in the root onedrive folder" and the other PC was ok. The bad PC has too many processes running and browser tabs open. By Restarting the windows 10, it fixed the problem. Now I can see them in both OneDrive My files and the recent folder. They are sync'ed with the local OneDrive Documents folder.
I've also had this problem with the onedrive app on my phone because it doesnt show my current files and folders from 2023 or 2022 that I have on my computer in my Onedrive it just shows files and folders that I had created and saved in 2021 this is really annoying so if there's any way to fix this please tell me cause this is frustrating.
Hello all,
This is an issue I've had for ages, and can't seem to figure out. I have an external MicroSD card running through an SD to USB converter, and its recognized as (F:)
I need to actively back up and sync the files from a folder on that drive to OneDrive, though, here's the problem: Every time I try to copy it over, it informs me of a lack of space. The folder is 75ish GB's, and I only have a 128 GB (C:) drive with just over 18 GB's left. I can't clear the space up without formatting the disk, it's just not possible.
My question is, how would I go about backing up AND syncing the folder with OneDrive, without having to make a copy.
I was able to change the settings so the files are not stored locally, however, once you click on a file in File Explorer, then it downloads locally. Is there a way to stop the downloading when you click on the file or is the only way with the right-click then View Online?
Yes, the files only download locally if I double-click them. So then if I no longer want them locally I have to right-click "Free Up Space"? I am just curious as we are going to have several users that will share and edit files out of a Team OneDrive and I don't want a bunch of local copies on each users C drive.
Vasil Michev
Still confused. I have a lot of crucial data on my PC D: drive. I tried to put into the OneDrive cloud as a backup and to be able to access it from elsewhere. It ended up putting a lot of it, but not all, on my C: drive, who knows why. I now have two versions of some of the data. This poses a serious dilemma. It doesn't seem to sync but I'm afraid that if I delete the C: drive version, it will also delete the critical D: drive version. I just don't understand OneDrive at all. It promises so much but delivers a hotchpotch. Can someone please explain it in plain English, not computer jargon?
Bobapingu I am in the same boat. I would like OneDrive to mirror my C: drive and serve as a backup, instead I think I also have two or three versions of the same data. Also, every time I change anything in a file, OneDrive immediately begins to process the changes. This is great for small files, but when I am working with >1GB rasters is ESRI ArcMap OneDrive consumes my college-budget internet.
Brandon4121
I feel your pain. OneDrive appears to be a poorly thought through concept intended to push everyone onto cloud storage. That meant someone else holds all your private and intellectual property. Despite all the security safeguards, when you die, who gets to own your IP? Your next of kin? No, they won't know where to find it if they even know it exists. Possession is nine tenths of the law and Microsoft possesses it. Adobe and others are doing the same thing with photographic IP.
I have a lot of photographic data and private correspondence that I keep on an internal D: drive. This gets backed up on an internal E: drive and the E: drive is mirrored onto an external X: drive. I thought I could simplify matters by using OneDrive, exactly as you thought. Not so! I found I had the same data in triplicate on OneDrive, the C: and D: drives and never sure which was the latest. In frustration, I checked every file for age, deleted the older files and kept the latest on D: drive. So effectively I'm now happily out of OneDrive. I must say, this was my third failed attempt to use OneDrive. I may still be paying for the 1TB of storage that I never used. That still needs to be checked.
It is taking up most of my space on my C drive. I wanted to temporarily backup Onedrive from the C drive to a thumbdrive because I am going to move onedrive to a larger hard drive, and I do not trust that Microsoft will loose my data somewhere in the process. The problem is when I backup the data from C drive to the thumbdrive, instead of copying the data from C drive, Onedrive wants to download the data from the cloud. With the nearly 1 terrabyte of data I have stored there, it is going to take 40 hours to download and use up my monthly allotted amount of data I can download from my internet provider. I am trying to figure out why it is trying to download it from the cloud if I am copying it from my local C drive. If I turn off the network and try to copy it from the C drive, it tells me that an unknown error has occurred. Then when I move onedrive to another drive, it is going to try and download the 1 terrabyte of data again. What a truly stupid system.
Yeah, so many things bug me about Microsoft, Please don't get me started. I even received my MCSE and a few other certifications from them back in the 90's and early 2000's, and I still fight with their over bloated Windows that does not always work right. For example, my search, cortana, news, DTS, and a few other Microsoft apps always stop working at random times on all my computers. Anyway, I finally got my onedrive moved to another drive but never made a backup to a USB. I was frustrated with Microsoft again and needed a place to voice my displeasure. Thanks for the response.
There may be cases in which you may want to keep local copies of some or all of your OneDrive files. As long you have enough storage space on your local hard drive and the content is not restricted from being synced by Information Security policies, then this can be easily done. You may also find this useful to ensure you have a local copy so you can work with files when you will be offline (i.e upcoming snow day or working remotely in an area with poor internet connectivity).
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