Why does my Onedrive.exe file disappear from the %appdata%\local\microsoft\onedrive folder?

Anonymous
2018-06-01T10:56:27+00:00

For some reason, my onedrive.exe program gets deleted after a day from the %appdata%\local\microsoft\onedrive folder.

I have uninstalled OneDrive and then reinstalled it.  The program works for a day, but then the following day I notice that the OneDrive icon is not in my taskbar (i.e. OneDrive stopped running) and then when I go to launch the program, it says it can't fine OneDrive.  I navigate to the folder (noted above) and the OneDrive.exe file is no longer there.  

This is really strange.

Can someone help?

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-07-14T20:04:19+00:00

    Work Around

    First, a question: How many on here having this issue are on Office Insider? I suspect this issue is coming up each time Office Insider updates, which is about once a week.

    In the meantime. If you have this issue - DO NOT UNINSTALL. Do not use a registry cleaner (actually, NEVER use a registry cleaner for anything!), do not try to reinstall, do not go past Go, do not do anything strange like moving files or anything drastic.

    That is completely unnecessary.

    Simply go to user\USER NAME\local\microsoft\onedrive and then open the most recent folder. It will be something like:

    18.131.0701.0002

    Look for OneDriveSetup.exe

    Double click and it will just take a couple of seconds to restore your OneDrive and place the OneDrive.exe in the correct place. You won't even have to resync.

    This workaround has been posted by a few people on this thread. 

    I have no idea at this stage what the problem is, but if it is because we are on Office Insider, then this is probably the wrong forum.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-07-14T19:18:51+00:00

    Well, after all that period of stability, last night Onedrive vanished again.. In fact I had difficulty uninstalling the "remains", finally having to use Revo Uninstaller. Reinstalled after a reboot with a freshly downloaded OnedriveSetup  18.025.0204.0009 from Microsoft's site. Interesting in that this is an older version that they have for download. Hmmmmmmmmm..

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-07-12T17:25:04+00:00

    This is what I used: https://www.largesoftware.com/

     I've been on Onedrive V18.091.0506.0007 since 6/23/18.. I used the standalone install.. It hasn't "auto updated" that I know of.. Note that I did not turn off any updating.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-07-12T16:56:39+00:00

    A registry cleaner is a program you can run which will review your registry and clean it up. It removes entries from programs previously installed,  removes invalid references, etc. A love ccleaner you can download and run for free. Works great and is easy to use.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-07-12T16:55:18+00:00

    A full system format and reload of an operating system was done already and problem remained. That was before 6/25 though. I have tried doing what you stated a while back and even again after 6/25 with the Onedrive still breaking. (Seems to be at build intervals.) For the registry cleaner,   I use ccleaner and it does a great job.  

    Last update I  received was 7/11/2018,  however, my update number was KB4338819. The current build working as of now for me is 18.111.0603.0006_1

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