Questions tagged [onedrive]
Cloud storage service from Microsoft (formerly known as SkyDrive)
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Uploading large folders to Onedrive
I have ~300GB of photos and other data, stored on an external hard drive, that I want to put on my onedrive account. As an Office365 customer I have 1TB of storage available.
I have the Onedrive app ...
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Micrsoft Excel Save to OneDrive -That location is not available when Network Disconnected
I have Excel 2016 (I think - I can no longer get a simple Help About so I'm not sure) - This is a Home Use licensed version obtained using the company membership.
I also have a free OneDrive account ...
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How to automatically store screenshots to OneDrive?
According to the Microsoft documentation, there should be an option to store screenshots to OneDrive:
Unfortunately, on my 64-bit German Windows 10 PC (having both a personal and an Office 365 ...
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I need to access OneDrive for business file through a CMD entry to unpack something [closed]
This is the file path that I am trying to access: (yes names have been replaced)
C:\Users\MyNAme\OneDrive – company name\MyName\Eclipse\red-app-sdk-3.0-19.12\webmodules\tools\offline-bundle
The ...
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Macro-enabled Excel workbook on OneDrive always prompts to save changes
I recently moved a folder that contains many Excel files from the Documents folder of my user profile to OneDrive. I now see two unexpected behaviours:
The first time I open a regular Excel workbook (...
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OneDrive options showing up again out of the blue
Windows 10 machine
I disabled/removed OneDrive upon getting the computer some years ago. Now when I'm trying to save a MS Word doc, there's a OneDrive option and showing my email address.
I do not ...
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OneDrive Windows 10 - how to force sync
So, this is the case:
go to https://mycompany-my.sharepoint.com/personal/myuser/_layouts/...
Click Sync
Next, next, .. Open my onedrive folder
Copy files to local folder
Waiting to OneDrive to ...
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Can't CD to Desktop anymore
In my Windows 10 box, I can't cd to Desktop anymore.
C:\Users\me>cd Desktop
The system cannot find the path specified.
C:\Users\me>
What's wrong with my computer?
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How can a OneDrive user sync in his/her hard drive a folder I've shared from my own OneDrive?
I have a large multi-GB folder I've shared with a colleague and I've sent him a link with which he can download everything, but how could he "sync" my folder using the OneDrive client so whenever I ...
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OneDrive does not stop syncing on metered connection any longer, what can I do?
I just discovered that OneDrive has wasted 1 GB of my monthly data volume for syncing via my hotspot, despite it was configured as a metered connection in the Windows 10 (1903) settings app. In past, ...
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Merging two Sharepoint Directories
I'm wondering if anyone has any experience in merging file systems. I have two SharePoint directories (with countless subdirectories...), one ~1.5TB and one ~0.5TB, that need to be merged together. I ...
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Accidentally erased large chunk of text from Word doc saved in OneDrive, why can I not restore it from the version history?
I have been working on a document in Word for a few weeks. I have been saving it to OneDrive, and editing it in Word online, macOS, and Android clients. I have been making edits to it multiple times a ...
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The Data Area passed through a System Call is Too Small
I have a Sharepoint site synced as a mapped drive and when I try to open a file from a file path that's over 260 characters, I get the error, 'The Data Area passed through a System Call is too Small.' ...
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Are OneDrive preferences stored per PC or per account?
In an Azure Active Directory environment, where all accounts are in AD, and we are using Office 365 OneDrive - are the OneDrive preferences stored per PC, or per AD account? I.e. if a user logs onto ...
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Avoiding the intrusion of "OneDrive" folder in fresh Windows 10 install
I have a Windows 10 laptop that is 4 years old. Yesterday I put a new solid state C: drive in it an re-installed Windows 10. So this is a newer version of Windows 10 than I had originally. (This ...
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How to create a shortcut on a shared drive that will open for multiple users
I'm trying to migrate many of the commonly used documents for my organization to OneDrive. Mostly for versioning and multiuser editing support. Our current file system is on a shared network drive and ...
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How do I get OneDrive back once I've uninstalled it?
I was super-annoyed with Microsoft pushing OneDrive on me, so I uninstalled it, and even did the registry hacks to remove the icon from file explorer and the system tray.
And then I got a job at a ...
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How do I reinstall Windows 10 File Explorer?
I want to uninstall Windows 10 File Explorer, then reinstall it. How do I accomplish this task?
Motivation: Every time I navigate to my C:\Users\MyUserID\OneDrive - Business\Documents\ directory two ...
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Migrate Data from Ondedrive to iCloud Photos
My OneDrive contains pretty much all of my files, photos and videos (~60+ gb). I have a mac and an iPhone and I finally want to sync up everything all in iCloud. I've already upgraded my iCloud so it ...
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Clicking on synced `Documents` spawns an additional `OneDrive` folder to open
Every time I click on my Windows 10 Documents folder, that specific folder is opened (expected behavior) and an additional OneDrive folder is opened (unexpected behavior). How do I disable this ...
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OneNote - Orphaned notebooks still listed
Microsoft OneNote (Version 16001.12026.20112.0) lists still orphaned, means already deleted notebooks. I would say I created them using OneNote 2016 Desktop, by the way I'm using the Microsoft Store ...
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One drive syncing deleted local files
Some folders and files were copied from local C:\ to OneDrive.
After (or during) the copying process, I deleted some folders and files from C:\ .
Now OneDrive forever shows a blue circular arrow ...
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shortcuts, pinned to taskbar, seem to loose some menu content
I'm working with a Windows-10 computer, and it's already several months that I have Google Chrome pinned to my taskbar. The corresponding menu looks as follows:
Recently closed:
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Tasks:
New ...
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How to enable Automatic file download in Windows 10 Settings?
My Automatic file downloads setting is disabled, how to enable it?
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Performing a vagrant up inside a Onedrive folder project, why happens this output error message bellow?
My Vagrantfile:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.define "vm1" do |vm1|
vm1.vm.box = "debian/buster64"
vm1.vm.box.hostname = "debian-vm"
vm1.vm.network "...
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Backup Excel personal.xlsb to OneDrive
I am using OneDrive for Business and I want to backup my Excel personal macro file; personal.xlsb.
I have tried the following methods without success.
Add folder to OneDrive - I cannot seem to ...
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How to get an alert when someone changed a word/excel document which is stored on a onedrive
I created a word document and shared it with a bunch of colleagues.
Can I get an alert
when someone views the document?
when someone changed the document`?
Thanks for any tip
Best regards
Hannes
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How can I log out from Microsoft Office apps installed on machine which I dont have access to
I had a client laptop. I was logged into the microsoft account in the office apps (Word, Excel etc) installed on that laptop. Now I have left that project and am no more able to login to that laptop. ...
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Chrome Randomly Downloading Files from Onedrive
I am running Google Chrome and Onedrive on an iMac 2017. Onedrive has on-demand files enabled, so that it only downloads files when I request them. I gave Chrome permission two days ago to download ...
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Real location of OneDrive folder in Windows 10
I specified a custom location for the personal OneDrive folder while installing the OneDrive client in my Windows 10 Pro v1903. I placed this folder in the root of the drive D. After using this folder ...
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ConEmu always starts with deleting a OneDrive user profile folder
I have ConEmu installed even before I have upgraded from Win7 to Win10.
For quite a while whenever I start ConEmu without a specific task, the following command gets executed:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd....
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How do I open the Office Upload Center manually?
If there's a problem with the Office 365 One drive upload I get a link to open the Upload Center.
How can I open it manually (without the link provided when a problem occurs)?
This is what I mean ...
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Setting OneDrive location in Windows 10 Guest to host shared folder in VirtualBox
My only solution so far to really have OneDrive running on my Fedora workstation is to have Windows 10 in a VirtualBox VM. I've set up a shared machine folder between the two, and I can access the ...
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What is an appropriate Microsoft solution to create a filesharing repository for only a subset of people at an organization?
Our organization has offices in different cities, and we want to create a filesharing solution only for people sitting at one particular office. Previously we used to have a Google drive folder and ...
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OneDrive folder is missing in the Windows Explorer navigation pane
Upgraded to the latest Windows 10 (Windows 10 Pro, Version 1930, OS build 18362.239), installed the latest OneDrive using OneDriveSetup.exe (19.123.0624.0005). However, I do not see the OneDrive ...
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Windows 10 shows OneDrive Desktop folder instead of real desktop folder
I installed OneDrive a few months ago but now I would like to get rid off it. It seems to be a challenge to get there..
My actual problem is the following:
The files on my desktop are saved in C:\...
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Microsoft OneDrive or Google Drive - which one is more secure option? [closed]
I want to choose cloud storage for my private stuff, especially for the photography - which services is better ? I know the Google Photos but it's also in the Google Drive scope so please could you ...
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Onenote - Reducing Storage Footprint on PC
Is there a way to reduce the size of the Onenote folder size on my PC - Outlook 2016 MSO 64 bit)?
I love Onenote and use it extensively. The one downside is that the local copy of my notebook is ...
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How to remove Move to OneDrive from Context Menu in Windows 7
Is there a way to remove Move to OneDrive from Context Menu in Windows 7
I can't find anything related to OneDrive in the following keys.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\...
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Windows Icon Overlay Limit
I've tried to read as much about this as possible but I am confused... Microsoft claims overlays are not the prefered method for conveying file metadata, but if this is true, why does OneDrive use a ...
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Win 10 Music library Access denied - Old OneDrive-folder
So I had my OneDrive setup on my local C:\ drive and i had my music library in it. I have moved my OneDrive to an SD-Card so to free up some space. However there is still a folder in C:\Users\User\...
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Combine OneDrive and OnDrive for Business accounts to one client
I have a personal OneDrive account, that syncs with the OneDrive client that came on the laptop. I recently synced a work OneDrive for Business account to the same machine. I now have two clients ...
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OneDrive Share Not Shared
The Question: How can I set up a folder or folder-tree on OneDrive on the desktop so it shares contents placed in the folder with additional users?
Additional Details: I have a few users that have ...
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Removing -copy files OneDrive created
I had OneDrive disabled on my computer for a while. Today, I activated it for a while and it started syncing certain folders and one of those folders contains the code for an application I'm working ...
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What file names are not allowed in OneDrive?
I have been having some trouble lately with OneDrive files not syncing properly, and each time it turns out to be some obscure naming restriction.
Is there a full list somewhere of what filenames ...
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OneDrive not running automatically on Windows 10 because of Registry setting
Every time I reboot Windows 10 the registry setting
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\OneDrive
Is reset by windows 10 to value
DisableFileSyncNGSC = DWORD:1
Which means that ...
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We couldn't merge the changes in DOCUME~1-LAPTOP-2HELU67E-146
I'm running into an issue the last few days with my PC & OneDrive giving me the following error message ...
We couldn't merge the changes in "DOCUME~1-LAPTOP-2HELU67E-146"
The last no. 146 seems ...
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Environment variables for OneDrive synchronisation folders
This question relates to using Microsoft Teams and OneDrive.
The %OneDrive% environment variable can stand in for the local folder being used for personal OneDrive storage (e.g., 'C:\OneDrive - ...
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OneDrive failing with Location Not Available after changing user directory
I've just gotten a replacement Surface 5 after my Surface 4 failed under a "flickergate" scenario. OneDrive was initially awesome to sync up a bunch of settings I had on my previous machine, however, ...
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How do I connect Word to a different OneDrive for Business account?
Background
Our company is in the process of migrating AD domains and O365 tenants. This is a phased migration with many moving parts. We're now using our new accounts to access the O365 services, ...