OneDrive missing after Windows 10 upgrade

Question

I have upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 Pro.

I cannot seem to find OneDrive anywhere and I cannot install it either. When I try to download and install it, it says I have the most up-to-date version installed.

How do I get OneDrive up and running?

Answer 1

I had a similar problem and tried all the suggested answers here without luck. What worked for me was the following :

execute %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\Update\OneDriveSetup.exe

It will ask you to sign in with your Microsoft account. After that it will start the sync process and the tray icon will be available again.

Answer 2

I recently shifted to Windows 10.

After a while OneDrive was gone. I mean gone, not in Control Panel > Installed Programs, not in features, not running, not in Task Manager, etc.

From what I could understand OneDrive comes shipped OOTB with Windows 10 so you're not supposed to even have to install it in the first place.

The main behaviour was that, whatever I did (install onedrive, run it, reset it) I would always get a brief window that eventually closed and nothing else happened.

Online I've found two recommendations:

Reset OneDrive:

%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset

Run OneDrive:

%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe

Sadly, none of that worked so I tried:

gpedit.msc > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > OneDrive > "Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage" > Disabled

That also failed, so in the end what worked was deleting a registry setting:

regedit > localmachine > software > policies > Microsoft > Windows > OneDrive > DisableFileSync

or alternatively, save and run the below in a .reg file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\OneDrive] "DisableFileSyncNGSC"=-

run onedrive from local data and now it will open!

Source

Answer 3

After having this same issue on a laptop & desktop after windows 10 upgrade I tried all of the things I read on the various forums. Ultimately for me the answer turned out to be very simple. I accessed the Onedrive account online. Then I removed all the connected devices. When I started Onedrive on the affected computers, it said it was no longer connected and asked for the username and password to reconnect. I entered it and it is back to normal. Did the same on the other PC and it worked as well. I believe the issue is somehow related to not recognizing the connected devices after the Win 10 upgrade. Anyway it worked for me, I hope it will help others.

Answer 4

Worked well with Windows 10: If the OneDrive system tray icon does not re-appear after a few minutes, do the following. In the run window enter:

 %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe

After resetting Onedrive , please right click on Onedrive icon from the system tray or from the right bottom of the screen and then click on setting. You can click on Choose folders from where you can check option of the folders which you want to sync with Onedrive applications.

Answer 5

Whilst the above responses may have been helpful in other situations they were not for me (as with many other "solutions" proffered elsewhere). So I took another route. Look at how OneDrive may have been disabled. The following post was my saviour (https://techjourney.net/disable-or-uninstall-onedrive-completely-in-windows-10/). I simply reversed the process (ie. "disabled" Prevent the Usage...) and back came my Onedrive. Simple as that! Hope that helps others who may have been as exasperated as I was. Cheers, David

Answer 6

1. Click Start
2. Type "Add or Remove Programs" and open it
3. Find OneDrive in that list
4. Click uninstall
5. Reinstall OneDrive

Answer 7

Try this:

1. "WindowsKey + R"
2. Write "taskmgr" and click Run.
3. Go to Startup tab and check if OneDrive is disabled.

If disabled, right click and Enable.

Answer 8

Follow these steps:

1. Open %localappdata% (C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local) then go to Microsoft\OneDrive\Update
2. Execute OneDriveSetup.exe
3. Wait until the installer successfully installs OneDrive. If you ever used OneDrive on your computer, it will log in, appear in system tray and start syncing automatically.

Answer 9

Try resetting the OneDrive application. Here's how:

1. Press Win+R to open the 'Run' window.
2. In the Run window enter the following: %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset
3. Click OK. The OneDrive system tray icon on the desktop should disappear and re-appear after a minute or two.
4. If the OneDrive system tray icon does not re-appear after a few minutes, enter the following in the Run window: %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe

After resetting OneDrive, right click on the OneDrive icon in the system tray or at the right bottom corner of the screen and select "Settings".

Then click "Choose folders" and you can check which folders you want to sync with OneDrive.

Answer 10

What seems to happen for me is that, after a Windows 10 update, the OneDrive.exe file is removed from the c:\users\myusername\appdata\local\microsoft\onedrive folder (obviously myusername is whatever your own username is).

In that folder there are sub-folders with wonderful names such as 18.111.0603.0006. If you look in the latest one of these (it has the highest number) you will find onedrive.exe.

If you copy this into the c:\users\myusername\appdata\local\microsoft\onedrive folder you can restart OneDrive from the Start menu and all is OK. No resyncing of all your files is needed. Quick and easy. Works every time for me.

Answer 11

onedrive.exe did not exists in AppData. This worked:

Press the Windows + X key combinations to open the Quick Access menu. Select Command Prompt (Admin). To install the OneDrive in Windows 10 64-bit, issue the following commands:

%systemroot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe

Upon completing the installation, restart the computer and you can then use OneDrive again.