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
    2018-06-12T16:42:10+00:00

    I am having the same issue with windows 7. I've unintalled using rovio uninstaller "advanced" scan and then reinstalled at least 3 times. my ...local/Microsoft/Onedrive directory shows 3 directories beginning with 18.065.0329.002. What I did was make a backup copy of the whole directory, including the onedrive.exe file. 

    Today when I had the same issue, I went to that directory, copied and pasted the executable file back into the ...local/Microsoft/Onedrive directory. Then things worked from the shortcut in my startmenu. 

    I am wondering if there is some update that is going on that deletes the file. I see the time stamp on the OneDriveStandaloneUpdater.exe file is this morning, could be when I started it this morning...maybe not...and I didn't do anything with it this morning (meaning I didn't re install today). Maybe delete that? 

    Of course this should all be fixed by MS.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-06-12T01:53:16+00:00

    I'm personally having issues with a later version, 18.101.0520.0002, so a downgrade wouldn't help as OneDrive just tries to update again. Personally, I just copy the OneDrive.exe file from the folder out a directory into the main folder and it works for a couple days, then is deleted again, however it hasn't gotten deleted in the past 3 days or so, so I'm not sure if it solved it permanently.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-06-11T14:40:02+00:00

    If you go into your %appdata%\local\microsoft\onedrive you should see a subfolder which is named with a number string.  This is the version of the OneDrive build that is installed on your machine.  What number is it?

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

    I think it is possible that there is a problem with the 18.065.0329.0002 version (though not sure).   I would recommend install the 18.091.0506.0006 which is what I am using now.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-06-11T14:23:16+00:00

    The latest for Windows 10 (1803)

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-06-11T11:49:29+00:00

    I ran into the same problem!

    Can you confirm what version of OneDrive you had/have installed?

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