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
    2019-08-19T11:18:28+00:00

    I did not go through every single post in the thread, however today I am seeing what onedrive is doing live.

    I copied 2 files into the folder synced to onedrive. Less than one minutes after moving the file, it would get deleted by onedrive and appear in windows recycle bin. Restoring the file works but onedrive promptly deletes the file again. I have now restored the file from onedrive's recycle bin.

    I believe this happened because both PCs that are syncing to the same folder are running at the same time. When I copy a file into a folder on PC 1, that file doesn't exist in PC 2, therefore onedrive deletes the file in PC 1. I will not be doing further testing, I am going to move to google drive ASAP.

    This is scary stuff. I advice EVERYONE with a folder synced to onedrive to monitor their windows and onedrive recycle bin CONSTANTLY. This appears to happen after the latest windows 10 update.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-08-19T04:55:41+00:00

    I have also just experienced this. I happened to notice the deletion because it was recent and I happened to need the file. Fortunately I found the files in the onedrive recycle bin.

    I have 1 home PC and 2 laptops that syncs to the same onedrive folder. Perhaps this is an issue with onedrive.

    Now I am extremely worried for all the files that onedrive deleted without my knowledge, that have slipped my attention. I do not have a backup as such, my files in onedrive are my online backup. How wrong I was to trust microsoft.

    I'm done with onedrive. I am moving over to google drive. I have tried to search the same issue for google drive and it seems to be less prevalent.

    While I am at it this is a good chance to move away from microsoft office completely with google sheets or Libre Office.

    Good luck to everyone.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-05-24T17:49:14+00:00

    This is absolutely frustrating and unacceptable. If they don't fix this soon I am dumping OneDrive.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-05-01T21:43:03+00:00

    I have had OneDrive delete my files 3 times, this last time, it was not even in the Recycle Bin. Thankfully I had a backup on another drive. This does NOT make me feel safe at ALL.

    What is causing this???

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-04-17T03:37:16+00:00

    Happened to me again today so clearly not fixed. Logged into Cloud OneDrive from my laptop, had to reset my password since it is stored in my browser. Come home to my desktop, log into OneDrive with my new password, all my files are gone on my local drive. OneDrive is downloading over 400GB now. At least I did not lose any files (at least I don't think I did) but waiting for my files to download is a pain.

    Happened to me before after a Windows update and took days to finally stop it from deleting my files.

    This is a really scary product so I will be disabling it after I get all my files back.

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