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
    2018-06-20T19:07:29+00:00

    I had the exact same experience.  My recommendation is to completely uninstall OneDrive and delete the three directors that you referenced above.   Then download from the OneDrive website the latest Product Ring version (see below or google "OneDrive Download Production Ring") which is the 18.091.0506.0006 build.

    This is what I did and it has been working property since June 5.

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/new-onedrive-sync-client-release-notes-845dcf18-f921-435e-bf28-4e24b95e5fc0

    Thanks for the link for the  18.091.0506.0006 build. The Onedrive.com site is serving up the older buggy version that I can not install over the version I had installed here in Windows7 which was a slightly newer build. The issue was I could not even uninstall it.

    The  18.091.0506.0006 was able to upgrade and install properly but just to make sure I will uninstall One Drive and reinstall it. I wished the heck Microsoft would have a standalone uninstaller for Onedrive just for these cases.

    Yes the installation of  18.091.0506.0006 seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-06-20T17:12:49+00:00

    I am using that build (18.091.0506.0006) and Windows 7 and this had happened to me twice in the last week. Come on, Microsoft!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-06-19T03:49:16+00:00

    I had the exact same experience.  My recommendation is to completely uninstall OneDrive and delete the three directors that you referenced above.   Then download from the OneDrive website the latest Product Ring version (see below or google "OneDrive Download Production Ring") which is the 18.091.0506.0006 build.

    This is what I did and it has been working property since June 5.

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/new-onedrive-sync-client-release-notes-845dcf18-f921-435e-bf28-4e24b95e5fc0

    Thanks for the link for the  18.091.0506.0006 build. The Onedrive.com site is serving up the older buggy version that I can not install over the version I had installed here in Windows7 which was a slightly newer build. The issue was I could not even uninstall it.

    The  18.091.0506.0006 was able to upgrade and install properly but just to make sure I will uninstall One Drive and reinstall it. I wished the heck Microsoft would have a standalone uninstaller for Onedrive just for these cases.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-06-13T03:15:32+00:00

    Yes, that version seems to be more stable.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-06-12T16:54:36+00:00

    I had the exact same experience.  My recommendation is to completely uninstall OneDrive and delete the three directors that you referenced above.   Then download from the OneDrive website the latest Product Ring version (see below or google "OneDrive Download Production Ring") which is the 18.091.0506.0006 build.

    This is what I did and it has been working property since June 5.

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/new-onedrive-sync-client-release-notes-845dcf18-f921-435e-bf28-4e24b95e5fc0

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