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?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Install and upgrade

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-08-31T15:04:49+00:00

    I no longer have the issue, all 5 computers' OneDrive are stable and have been for some time. They have the latest Windows updates as well as Malwarebytes updates. I have no exclusions set because I did not want to put a bandaid on the issue, especially since we did not know if it worked or not.

    I strongly suggest making sure your Windows is fully updated, as well as you antivirus and if you have Malwarebytes, then that as well.

    Good luck.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-08-31T14:36:26+00:00

    I have the same recurring problem. When I do a search for the onedrive.exe file I always find it in a Onedrive subfolder. I move it back into the Onedrive folder and run it. All seems well until the next time Windows decides to move it again. Very frustrating, but you can tell when the Onedrive desktop icon changes it's time to go find the exe file again.  I NEVER have this problem with Dropbox.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-08-23T23:25:35+00:00

    I still have the problem. The push of 18.151.0729.0005 on 8-22-2018 caused the OneDrive app to not load. I had to run OneDriveSetup.exe to get it back. I DO have the exclusion in Malwarebytes; so that did not help. Probably not a Malwarebyte issue; at least not in my case.

    Same problem with 18.151.0729.0006 on 8-28-2018.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-08-23T22:22:09+00:00

    Hi CC Hogan,

    See my last post - the problem was fixed on the MalwareBytes end of things.  The folks at MalwareBytes didn't tell me who actually broke it ;-)

    As mentioned, I also chose not to add OneDrive exclusions into MalwareBytes.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-08-23T22:11:33+00:00

    Folks,

    As I think most folks have noticed by now, the latest OneDrive update pushes from Microsoft have NOT been blocked by MalwareBytes Premium :-).

    From the support ticket# upload of my logfiles, it seems that the folks at MalwareBytes were able to make a change on their end to fix the problem.  MalwareBytes support has been asking me for confirmation that their fix works, and I've told them so far so good.

    Is anybody still having problems?

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