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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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In my case windows didnt allow me to uninstall..when i tried to install the update from the website it said i could not because a newer version was already installed. Thats when i went to the folder...and my fix was clicking on the exe i mentioned in my previous post.
AceGJ -- My recommendation is to uninstall the version that you have currently and download the newer version:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/new-onedrive-sync-client-release-notes-845dcf18-f921-435e-bf28-4e24b95e5fc0. It looks like there is a newer version (Production Ring: 18.091.0506.0007).
I did this and it was working very well (though a week ago I needed to send my laptop in for a hardware repair so can't speak to whether there are current issues.
I spoke to soon. .exe was gone this morning. I have an old version stored away that I copy and paste back into the directory and it works again. Not sure what version the exe is but that's the easiest thing to do right now :( :(
Hello everyone..
Had a similar problem today, my onedrive application seemed to have disappeared from the taskbar, and the onedrive icon in the explorer tree was gone and replaced with generic icons (similar to what one see if an app was uninstalled).
What worked for me was: I opened C:\Windows\SysWOW64. In this folder is an application called: UserAccountBroker.exe. I clicked on that, and onedrive suddenly sprang to life on my task bar and for the time being seems to be happy.
I made a shortcut to this application on my desktop for in case it happens again.
PS. I clicked on some of the other exe applications in this folder first before finally finding this one... so i cannot tell you 100% that only by clicking this application that things started to work again...but it appeared that this one fixed my problem. My point is..if it doesn't work for you..maybe try some of the other user applications in this folder?
Hope it helps..
Microsoft needs to be sued for its OneDrive bugs. I'm a paying customer for a OneDrive non-service. At your soonest convenience, please provide the address to which process can be served on Microsoft in a lawsuit.
