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
    2018-07-18T14:15:44+00:00

    Maybe this is triggered by Windows updates? This started just after my router died on me at the beginning of the month and after having set up a new one 8 days ago, this was when the problem occurred and thought maybe that had something to do with it, but was just a coincidence, I think!

    I too have Office 365 installed (4 years) and also MalwareBytes anti-malware (2 years) but have been running both without problems. Since running the OneDriveSetup.exe for the second time in 2 days last week it has so far been OK, so fingers crossed it’s sorted itself out.

    How to get it up & running again certainly is handy to know, and it only takes a few minutes to do this, and providing it’s not going to occur very frequently, I can live with that.

    it is interesting though to know that others have the same issue, and that it’s not something that the user has directly caused.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-07-18T13:59:41+00:00

    Yet more evidence of a conflict between MalwareBytes and OneDrive:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/8uboty/onedrive\_for\_business\_missing\_after\_recent\_updates/

    Next, Microsoft OneDrive support team hasn't gotten back to me yet.  I'm going to see if MalwareBytes support team has a status on this, and if it can be resolved short-term using exclusions.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-07-18T13:44:33+00:00

    I am using MalwareBytes Premium as well.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-07-18T13:32:38+00:00

    Here is a similar thread, where MalwareBytes is also involved:

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice\_drive-mso\_win10-mso\_365hp/onedrive-keeps-uninstalling-since-recent-update/8070f057-e462-46ff-bdca-35d0454ac0e7

    I've submitted a support request with OneDrive team.  I don't see anything in the MalwareBytes forums on this yet....

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-07-18T13:15:43+00:00

    Malwarebytes Premium here as well as an FYI.

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