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
    2018-07-20T20:00:04+00:00

    Hi MaRoselle,

    There are quite a few posts on this thread now, but there has been nothing further from MS. Do you know if this issue is being looked at?

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-07-20T22:07:32+00:00

    I am puzzled by one thing.

    If Malwarebytes is the culprit, why do I have no issue for several days and then it suddenly happens again?

    It is not coinciding with a Malwarebytes scan and there is nothing in the logs. 

    That doesn't mean it isn't to do with Malwarebytes, but the connection is not clear. 

    BTW I also have Malwarebytes Premium...and on 2 PC's that I use Onedrive on frequently (all windows 7). One of them never(?) had an issue, the other one at the expected frequency. 

    I wonder if the issue has to do with the updater.exe prog. Could it be that whenever MS pushes an update, the problem occurs. At one point I tried to delete that from the onedrive directory...but it came back and I had the issue afterwards.

    I have put the folder into the malwarebytes exclusions, continue to see the updater time stamp change, but have not experienced issues for the last 3 days or so...but that is not long enough to make a conclusion something "worked".

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-07-20T22:26:25+00:00

    Hi,

    Yes, it's when a build update for the OneDrive sync client rolls out.

    If you check the C:\Users<username>\appdata\local\microsoft\onedrive folder you'll see folders with build numbers in the format xx.xxx.xxxx.xxxx. If you check the date on the latest build folder, you'll see that it will correlate to the date you had OneDrive stop working...

    Cheers,

    Nick

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-07-21T00:47:51+00:00

    Agreed.  I have set up Malwarebytes to exclude the folder noted above.  We will see if that helps.

    Thanks,

    Eric

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-07-23T04:49:03+00:00

    I do have MalwareBytes Premium installed as well, and like everyone else, have no logs or indication of it interfering.

    OneDrive was working for a while, but then it disappeared again. However, when Windows 10 updated to the latest build, OneDrive started working again. (I actually rolled back to a previous version since my last post here, but for whatever reason, Windows went back and updated again....)

    It's been working for a couple days now on build 18.131.0701.0004 on Windows Build 17692.1004.

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