OneDrive automatically deleting files from OneDrive folder

Anonymous
2018-05-22T21:43:34+00:00

The OneDrive forum appears to have been locked, so I am trying this one.

I moved some large files (photos) to my OneDrive folder to share between PCs and left them synchronising.  When I came back to check on their progress, the files had disappeared from the PCs.  Looking at the OneDrive window it shows them being added to Onedrive then mysteriously being removed a few minutes later.  What on earth is going on?    I tried Ctrl & Z to see if it could undo the removal.  The files looked as if they were being restored - but just disappeared again.  It's a good job I noticed, otherwise I could have lost these files forever.  I can't afford to have my important files just disappearing like that.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-06-19T16:55:58+00:00

    Amazing that this has been a known bug for over 2 years now - and a serious one, too, since it's deleting your files without your permission - and MS hasn't fixed it yet.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-01-02T22:53:44+00:00

    Further annoyance comes when you elect to restore the files and are then repeatedly alerted that you now have doubles of 10 to 20 files at a time. It goes on until the 1000+ files are restored. I just disengaged OneDrive. The benefit isnt worth the headache for me. Is Microsoft tone deaf?

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-15T08:35:18+00:00

    "All we can do is wait until the Microsoft CEO falls victim to this bug. Only then will it maybe get enough attention."

    Rumour has it, he is smart - so uses DropBox instead.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-02-10T21:40:04+00:00

    It's now Feb 11 and I've had exactly the same issue. Files I saved last Friday at 7:30 pm were deleted at 10:47pm when I wasn't even logged into a pc? I'm removing all files from OneDrive now as I can't trust it as being reliable until either a fix or reason for the issue occurring is released.

    Poor customer Support Microsoft.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-10-11T06:48:58+00:00

    Same thing happening for me.

    I'm using one drive on 2 windows 10 pcs and a windows server 2016. 

    New one drive folders and files keep deleting. 

    I restore them from the one drive recycle bin, they delete again...

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