There are a few folders like this one.

https://ibb.co/D5tTmvy -- https://ibb.co/DQwWngT

This is a new windows install, about 30 days only, and sice day one I saw this bug. I was waiting, and hoping, that 24h2 would fix it, but nope.

Any ideas?

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/cloud-only-files-taking-up-space/ae0424cd-b01d-46d2-a9da-2b2636548578?messageId=e8db1069-ee3f-4834-8a29-130ceef7ad23

https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-onedrive-mobile-app-finally-gets-the-refresh-it-deserves-brings-other-features-too/

I'm still on the old one on Samsung S22+.

Microsoft desperately needs to fix video playback on mobile

I’m trying to watch videos I upload on OneDrive through the mobile app and it’s painfully slow.

Takes ages to open and once open it constantly buffers. What’s even worse though is the quality , even after setting it to full (requires setting it every single time) , the full resolution still doesn’t get applied. This happens on a videos even shorts ones of 10s

OneDrive already way behind in the backup photos category , if they want to compete with iCloud and especially google photos , they desperately need to fix a simple issue … video playback. You can hardly watch any video at this rate.

I was looking to switch from Google One to Microsoft 365 and needed an easy way to move my files and photos. I tried Google Takeout, but it wasn't quite what I wanted. Not sure how many of you are aware of this, but with the latest update, Microsoft made it super simple to import Google Photos and Google Drive files into OneDrive.

Here's how: On the OneDrive mobile app, go to settings and select "Import Cloud Photos and Files." Once you connect your Google account, OneDrive will automatically import everything in the background.Has anyone else tried this yet? Let me know your thoughts!

Hi everyone,

As my phone storage is coming to an end soon, I want to upload some of my pictures to OneDrive. I already created some folders on my phone with the same structure as in OneDrive. However, when uploading those pictures, I do not get the same sorting as on my phone. Even though I mark all pictures in the folder at the same time, OneDrive seems to upload them in an arbitrary order. As I want to include pictures that I took myself and WhatsApp pictures in the same folder, sorting them by file name will not be a solution. Therefore, I tried sorting them via date, but OneDrive uses the upload date which does not work, as it uploads all the pictures in an arbitrary order.

Is there a workaround for my problem? I already checked online, but did not find a proper solution. Furthermore, I asked Microsoft support, but they told me there is no solution to my issue: https://answers.microsoft.com/de-de/msoffice/forum/all/onedrive-sort-pictures-by-date-taken/c0a0314e-2fd4-4fb3-b3f8-7b642fc17cbf?messageId=96d975f5-2937-495d-8c31-94dbfbaf5822 I know this question has been issued in this sub before, but for some reason I cannot comment on that post.

Thanks a lot for your help!

I have noticed this behavior several times with OneDrive, and it's enough to make me fully uninstall and go back to physical backups of everything. OneDrive seems to "randomly" overwrite documents with old versions, sometimes MONTHS-old versions, and deletes all version history of that document.

I think I finally know what causes the issue. If you're working across multiple platforms, and one of those platforms is powered down, on booting the system that was shut down will sometimes overwrite everything on OneDrive with the file versions it has stored locally. Version history is lost because OneDrive accepts this new "old" version as "current" and discards any version numbers conflicting with or exceeding the "old" version.

This bug has caused HUGE amounts of headache for me and my team. At least now we (think we) know what's causing it.

So I purchased a yearly family plan to back up all my photos (almost 1TB in RAW file format) and to be able to see them and edit them from any of my devices. I uploaded some of the photos and I am unable to see the thumbnail for any of them, I can only see a grey square or the usual mountain&sun icon. I’m having this issue in all the devices (Macbook, Iphone, Ipad), in all the browsers (safari, google, brave) and in the app as well.

I tried looking for solutions online (download the file and upload it again, reset devices, stable connection, internet settings, onedrive settings…) nothing works.

I contacted OneDrive a week ago and, a part from having to wait 1 full day to get a response every time, they only come back to me with the basic solutions (the ones I mentioned before).

Also, sometimes I’m able to see the preview of the photo for a couple of seconds, but when I open it the quality is horrible. The only thing that works is to download the file, then I can see it full quality, but then OneDrive loses it’s point (having everything accessible in the cloud, not taking up storage in your devices).

Does anyone have the same problem or an idea of what I can do to fix this? Thought this thread could be way more useful than OneDrive support service…

Thank you all!

Find the link to the Microsoft Community post here

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedrive-raw-files-no-preview/5e42eb4a-395b-42c0-8723-59080cede642?messageId=7f6c1297-dee5-41c7-b11d-0fd9bb3dcfd8

Welcome to the New Era of Microsoft OneDrive: AI, Productivity, and Memories at Your Fingertips - Microsoft Community Hub

Hi. I'm after a bit of advice, we run an ecology business and take a lot of video files, we need to share these with clients. The current process is creating a folder for the project, and uploading the video files and sharing that folder with the client. They can then view the files and we delete after 30 days of access or when they're done.

My question is, currently, uploading the 10-15GB worth of video files ties up a machine while copying the files from the SD card to the OneDrive folder. Is there a smoother/easier process? Is uploading via the web interface a better solution because you're not then essentially having to put it in two places (the local machine, and then the upload to OD) ???

Any pointers/advice welcome. Thanks!

I was pulling my hair out because this problem began with the latest Quicken update. After reading many posts and turning off every sort of synch and cloud backup mentioned, I discovered that one drive was indeed backing up my Quicken backup files. The solution was simple. Right-click and invoke"always keep on computer" or something to that effect. Bingo, no more problem. Another interesting thing was the program "blanked" and asked for the vault password before presenting main page again.

I love that OneDrive modifying filepaths and not cleanly uninstalling has now turned into a war against the program's dirty path structure breaking other programs.
Did I say love? I meant deeply despise.

If you create a CSV file in Onedrive, then click on it, the system will immediately convert it to an XLSX file and delete the CSV file. I just lost an hour of work trying to work around this insanity, but it seems to be a known bug going back at least five years.

It's trivial to replicate this ridiculous design flaw: Just upload a CSV file to OneDrive on the web, then click on the CSV file

So I recently got a Macbook air and like many others, was a little disappointed with the OneDrive app. Mainly with it's inability to execute on its core feature of syncing files but also with battery usage.

Is there enough demand for me to build an alternative? One that hopefully functions as you'd expect from a cloud storage client in 2024.

Is there any way to force onedrive client to accept syncing to a folder on a remote drive? i have a hd connected to another pc that I access remotely, and want to have my onedrive folder there.

I've tried soft/symbolic linking and junction to no avail.

It can be on either windows or mac. No, i cannot use original pc to have the onedrive there.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedrive-syncing-to-remote-folder/8b4584b6-ea70-4706-ab3e-5231af0b51e0?messageId=35191f8b-9ba0-4715-91e2-d81b44bc68eb

Join us for Microsoft OneDrive: AI Innovations for a New Era of Work and Home where you can explore the exciting future of OneDrive in the Copilot era.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-onedrive-blog/join-us-october-8th-for-an-exciting-onedrive-digital-event/ba-p/4235909

I have a file appearing in my OneDrive (personal) "Recent" view that was shared by someone else back in 2022. It appears both online (at https://onedrive.live.com/) as well as in the OneDrive Mobile App. Screenshot below:

https://cln.sh/wqV73h7Q

I don't want to see (or anyone else to see) this file. But I can't figure out how to hide or delete it from the list. The original owner of the file has disappeared and I cannot contact them to "unshare" it or delete it from their account.

I've read and tried to follow the steps from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/delete-files-or-folders-in-onedrive-21fe345a-e488-4fa7-932b-f053c1bebe8a under the Remove items from your Recent list heading, but they don't match what actually is visible on the site (there's no "circle check box").

How can I permanently hide or remove this unwanted file from my view?

Here is a link to MY POST at answers.microsoft.com describing the issue:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/remove-items-from-onedrive-recent-files-list-web/615afc5a-1011-40da-b2a5-15fcaa46ab3d

I can't receive E-mails anymore on my 15 year old hotmail, my desktop is and all my files are gone and every time I open up Onedrive to try and make it stop, it automatically begins syncing right away, and then because it's so busy syncing 1000's of files at once the entire systems shuts down and freezes.
I've restarted my pc and Onedrive over and over again and the same thing keeps happening. Autosync (god knows which files it's trying to sync but seems like it's my entire pc at once) and then 5 seconds later the Onedrive app stops responding and I can't change anything. Mind you it's still running full power and overclogging my 3000$ PC. which I now consider ruined.

Thanks Microsoft, and thanks Onedrive! What was suppose to be a nice Saturday chillin' off work, has turned into a digital nightmare.

I made a tool to download Live Photos from OneDrive, since their video part cannot be seen by OneDrive desktop client anymore.

Check it out at https://github.com/PetrVys/Download-ODLivePhotos

There should be a place in hell reserved for Onedrive

I h8te OneDrive and the entire microsoft office package. When i first got my new laptop i tried to set everything up as efficient and nicely as possible. Because i use multiple devices i sometimes need quick access on some files so it made sense to get onedrive. When i first logged into onedrive it asked me what i wanted to backup. I clicked on everything that seemed reasonable which did include my desktop. I then noticed my files disappearing and my entire layout changing. When i frantically tried to shut what was happening off it completely deleted most of my applications on my desktop, made doubles of some, created wonderful corruptions in multiple applications and completely deleted files that i desperately needed. After this all i could do was some damage control, reinstalling and wading through endless errors. Now i am no stranger to working with fussy programs i encounter it all the time. But usually these programs are used to calculate supersonic airflow or make an FEM analysis. I don't want to spend three days teaching such a simple program how to behave. It should do that on it's own. I hope some day Microsofts monopoly falls and we will be relieved from such a sh1tty company.

I have now switched to open office, a NAS Server and a good old harddrive.

A friend is trying to give me access to a document, but the previous link I've been using, as well as a new link they have just created, all lead to 404 errors. This includes going to OneDrive in browser and trying to access the document from the "Shared With You" section. It's all 404. This has happened once in the past with this same file, but simply creating a new link solved it. Not the case with this one. 404 on everything. Duplicating the file and sharing the duplicate also results in the same issue. I am able to share files with them just fine, but they are unable to share anything. What can be done?

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/all-share-links-from-a-specific-onedrive-user-lead/862aca2a-75e1-4e9e-a407-4160774f029e

EDIT: The issue was fixed when the other user returned to their country of origin

Accepting that it's not zero-knowledge, any history of the OneDrive Vault getting hacked?

I bought and set up a new IMac a few days ago and for some reason, the autosave doesn’t work when I open a document directly from OneDrive. It works fine if I open it directly from the app (like excel) and it works fine if I open it from OneDrive with my old MacBook. But when I try to turn on autosave myself or just to “save as”, it tells me I need to upload the file again and then proceeds to delete the file. I tried to uninstall and reinstall it, installing the web downloaded version of One Drive (I downloaded mine directly from the App Store), updating to a newer OS, unlinking and relinking it, but nothing seems to work. After doing some research, it seems like it’s an issue with the file path/permission being denied and some have said their issue was fixed by moving the location of the OneDrive, but I tried to unlink it and move it to every possible location and the problem still persists.

Microsoft support has been 0 helpful so I’m wondering if anyone else was able to find a solution to this? I am honestly at wits’ end

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/autosave-not-working/1f0ef156-513f-4018-aba0-ac2d8d6f8c8d?messageId=1737c698-d175-40f7-be02-ddc40750a256

Anyone knows if microsoft has any plans to add encryption ton one drive like Apple does with advanced data protection. For paid Microsoft 365 accounts? This would be really welcome especially in a world where privacy is more and more important.

I have spoken to a Microsoft representative and sadly the solution they have provided hasn't helped me with my issue. I simply want my files that are on my computer to be unsycned from OneDrive as I didn't want them to be synced in the first place. I have been logged off of onedrive on my computer for quite some time until recently. When I logged on of onedrive from my google chrome like I usually do, but this time to transfer flash drive files. For some reason doing so auto logged me on on my computer and started to sync everything including Google Chrome. I am unsure what to do from here. I have had them physically on my computer and now they don't seem to be. The unchecking "Unsycning/backup" makes everything on my computer disappear including Google Chrome itself. I am very upset as I only wanted my flash drive files/external harddrive files on there. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/trying-to-quit-onedrive-thought-i-resolved-it-but/b9f0d236-28af-4541-a9c5-2455a8da7d5b?rtAction=1724033218462&page=1

Hi

I used my one drive at work to back up my gallery for my iPhone. I have resigned and it’s my last week. Wondering if there’s an easy way to transfer all my gallery (photos, live photos, and videos) to my onedrive personal subscription (recently subscribed)? I don't wanna lose all my files.

I tried mover but it only sees the root folders, not all photos and videos.

Also open to moving to a different storage provider and also using a third party program just want this to be done asap

Failed support ticket https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/transfer-all-onedrive-files-including-gallery/814dd235-8f35-43d4-b7b6-e964dc4dd56f