Onedrive Windows 10 Lite
Julia Heaslet
I'm trying to use Onedrive and Onenote, but it seems to be really terrible 50% of the time. Sometimes when I log on my pc, it says I have to log in, and in doing so, is stuck on a "signing in" loop, until it says some error code about me not having an internet connection.
Here's what I've tried:
1. Close and open Onedrive
2. Removing auth from the pc and adding it again
3. Reinstalling Onedrive
4. Change Wi-Fi
5. Do a /reset in Windows run AND cmd
6. Update drivers
7. Install the newest Onedrive from the website
8. Try the app-version found in Windows Store
What am I supposed to do? I don't want to restart my pc every time it doesn't work, that's a terrible fix.
Clear OneDrive cached credentials:
Navigate to Control Panel > User Accounts > Credential Manager > Windows Credentials.
Check for any "OneDrive" credentials and remove them.
Unlink your account:
Right-click the OneDrive icon, go to Settings > Account, select "Unlink this PC," and then "Unlink this account". Afterward, sign in again to check if the issue persists.
Firewall and Antivirus Settings:
Check your firewall and antivirus settings to make sure they are not blocking OneDrive's connection. Temporarily disable them and see if the issue persists.
Delete the existing local OneDrive folder:
After uninstalling OneDrive, you could try deleting the existing local OneDrive folder and then reinstall the OneDrive App.
If none of these steps work, it might be best to reach out to Microsoft Support directly for further assistance.
For over a year now, my business OneDrive will randomly hang on 'Signing In' and like you, I've tried everything that might keep this from happening. I've never had this issue with my personal OneDrive (on the same system).
To regain access, from the task bar icon, open OneDrive settings, go to 'Account' and click 'Unlink this PC', then 'Quit OneDrive'. Reopen the OneDrive app and sign in. Follow the setup process and when it tells you the default folder already exists, click 'Use This Folder' and complete the remaining steps. It will then perform a full sync.
A while back, when I would go to sign in, I would get blocked by an initial dialog saying my account already existed, so instead of entering my actual email address, I would enter a fake email address, but with the same domain (bob2@ rather than bob@). That would get me past that dialog and to the Microsoft account screen where I could sign in using my actual email address. I haven't had to do that in a while, so maybe they got that part fixed at least.
I am having this issue with my personal OneDrive (works) and university OneDrive (is hung up on "signing in"). In the past different combinations of closing OneDrive and unlinking / relinking have worked, occasionally I've had to reinstall which is not ideal because it I have to resync my sharepoint folders and remove old ones. Trying to follow these steps to avoid reinstalling - I unlinked my university account and closed OneDrive. When I reopen OneDrive its opening the personal account version (there's only one app listed in my apps, though when both are running I've got ta grey cloud and a blue cloud in the taskbar). I tried to add a new account in OneDrive (using my university login), pointed to the old university onedrive folder, and that works but in the next step its saying that before I can back up my folders in OneDrive (university version) I need to turn off backups for my personal account. That seems problematic... Is there a different way to link, or to tell it I'm going to run two OneDrive accounts at once in a way that will work? @kcCodeMonkey your instructions seemed like the closest fit for my issue so hoping you have insight.
@dro__53 I believe the issue may be related to the local folders that are being synced to each OneDrive account. Meaning, I don't think you can sync, for example, your Documents folder to your personal *and* university OneDrive accounts at the same time. I'm careful not to do that when I set things up, so I must have read that somewhere. During those times I need to re-establish my work OneDrive (because it's hung on signing-in) I always deselect Documents, Pictures, and Desktop during the setup process as those are already being backed up by my personal account. If I think of anything else, I'll chime back in.
My problem is very similar. After the last Windows 10 update, OneDrive keeps connecting and disconnecting. There's no point in doing anything. Uninstall, reset, erase credentials.
I've been researching and I think they even commented above. It's something with MFA or Windows.
I also often receive this error occasionally. What works for me is to wait for 5 minutes and then restart system! Microsoft have been always notorius for such annoyances from time to time. This is not the first time. If you'll look into the solution that is provided is actually force revoke type i.e it means that you should uninstall and install. This means that software's testing was really messed up.
When user choose "Make available online-only", user still can see the data in windows file explorer, but the data not really store in local disk.When user double click the data, OneDrive will download data from cloud to local, if computer doesn't have net, user can't open data.
Though Windows itself may not support it the same way with built-in handling, you should still be able to code up a solution similar to what you were looking for. From what I can tell the "smart files" that OneDrive/SkyDrive were using could also be called "Placeholder Files" now. They're basically just NTFS Reparse Points with a custom Reparse Tag Identifier associated to the file types.
It should be noted however since it was mentioned above, that even though the old Reparse Tag identifier was deprecated, they seem to be re-implementing a version of the Placeholder files for Windows 10. Recent builds included new "ONEDRIVE" reparse tag identifiers.
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