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After some problems I reset OneDrive and moved the folder to another location (on another partition).
I pointed OneDrive setting to this new empty folder called OneDrive.
All my files (385GB) are downloading now to this new (empty) OneDrive folder.
I don't want to leave anything just in the cloud on demand.
I don't trust OneDrive anymore.
The downloading (syncing) is very very slow.
While syncing I get the message that there will be 2 copies of the same file created.
The name of the second file has the name of my PC attached.
The OneDrive files are syncing to an empty folder.
How can there be two versions of the same file????
I have to stop the synchronizing before my files get corrupted.
Second problem!
In the old location of the OneDrive folder there is still an "old" folder with all my files.
This folder is not part of OneDrive anymore and is certainly not syncing.
It's just a normal folder with some files.
When I try to delete a folder inside this old OneDrive I get an error saying this is not possible???
This folder cannot be deleted because the cloudprovider is not running.
Error 0x8007016A
Do I have to reset again?
I stil need my files in the OneDrive cloud.
I'm afraid of loosing my files.
Is this the "new" OneDrive?
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I get also this error 0x8007016A since the Windows 10 April 2018 update with the files on demand setting. As a workaround I have to switch off file on demand, wait for the restart of OneDrive and then I delete the not fully synced file (only thumbnail but filesize zero). After deletion OneDrive downloads the file again from the cloud. This is definitely a bug!
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I have this same error and when OneDrive works it is great. When it does NOT it is a BLOODY NIGHTMARE and i totally agree with the negative responses. My situation is that I had access to a client onedrive folder. I synced it, then when the project ended i could NOT delete the folder. I get the following error: "The directory is not empty". This is very, very annoying. I uninstalled Onedrive. I ran reset. I am going to rebake my PC and use all Google Products until my Mac or Chrome book replaces
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Press Win-X, run powershell as admin, and enter this in.
Remove-Item "OneDrive" -Recurse -Force
If you get this error:
Remove-Item : Cannot find path 'C:\Users\username\OneDrive' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:1
It is because your one drive is named something else like "onedrive personal" and you need to replace the script in quotes with that name or your one drive in a different location than the current path. If the second is the case type
C:\users\username\documents
or whatever the path is to the folder containing the one drive folder, then try this again:
Remove-Item "OneDrive" -Recurse -Force
And how do we activate syncing? i have been manually moving files and creating folders and it seems dumb but if I try to copy the root over, it fails just because folders already exist.