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
    2018-07-30T02:38:38+00:00

    Yes, I think a pushed update of OneDrive from Microsoft is being blocked by Malwarebytes, causing failure in the middle of installation.

    The last OneDrive push that I saw was 18.111.0603.0006_1 on July 17th.

    I have chosen NOT to add a Malwarebytes exclusion.  I remember reading about some OneDrive vulnerabilities that Malwarebytes *might* be trying to defend against, so I'm leaning on the side of paranoia ;-)

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-07-26T20:41:06+00:00

    Yesterday OneDrive went from 18.131.0701.0004 to 18.135.0705.0003 and I didn't lose the .exe files from %localappdata%\Microsoft\Onedrive.

    I did have the exclusion for that location in MalwareBytes.

    This is the first update in many weeks that hasn't ended with OneDrive issues.

    Looks hopeful, but will continue to monitor over the next few update cycles.

    Cheers,

    Nick

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-07-26T16:16:40+00:00

    After re-installing OneDrive for the second time in two days a couple of weeks ago, so far everything’s been OK.

    However as I’m also running Malwarebytes, I have done as suggested and since excluded the folder C:\users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive to be on the safe side, it doesn’t appear to do any harm exluding it in the Malwarebytes App.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-07-26T15:33:15+00:00

    I'm still on 18.111.0603.0006_1 and so far all is well. Will be watching. Shouldn't have to always keep one eye on the sync icon, though. Thought they would have come up with something by now.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-07-26T06:23:30+00:00

    OneDrive 18.131.0701.0004 was pushed to me today (7-25). The OneDrive icon disappeared. I was able to finish the install by executing OneDriveSetup.exe.

    BTW, I had added the folder path, "C:\Users\xxxxxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive" to Malwarebytes Exclusions, but the OneDrive update failed anyway.

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