OneDrive deleted local files and started syncing old files !

Anonymous
2020-04-03T18:14:49+00:00

Hi,

OneDrive has suddenly deleted files in local folders that was not synced with OneDrive.

I installed OneDrive a while ago on my work computer and copied a lot of different files including Visual Studio projects to the OneDriver folder.

Later found out that OneDrive was causing problems for the Visual Studio projects and even though I had marked all folders to also be kept locally it wasn't working correctly.

So I moved all of the Visual Studio projects and several other folders back to the original location to make sure I had them locally.

Time goes by, and today when I turn on my computer I notice a lot of old files have been synced to my Desktop which is synced using OneDrive.

Then I also realize that the files that I moved out of the OneDrive synced folders have suddenly appeared again and old versions from back when I initially copied the folders are being synced again.

When I look at the local folder that is NOT synced with OneDrive, many of the files are gone - just like that - GONE.

There is no way to get the files back and all my recent work is lost.

I have looked in the online Recycle Bin and the Second stage recycle bin and none of the files are there (since they were never in OneDrive but only locally).

It seems like OneDrive has reverted the old actions of when I moved the files to the local folder and now old versions from back then are being synced.

This is completely unacceptable.

I have lost all my recent work.

How do I get my local files that has now been deleted by OneDrive but which was not synced with OneDrive back?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-01-13T20:35:49+00:00

    Exactly the same issue: OneDrive deletes files w/o being asked for

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-02-04T20:24:44+00:00

    Hi Martin

    I just wonder if you managed retrieve all your lost files in the end. I have had the same problems and actually lost all my data for my research etc wonder if you have a way out to share.

    This is indeed horrendous. I could not believe it it happens to so many people but never solved

    Thanks

    Best wishes

    Shi Min

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-02-25T17:07:15+00:00

    This same thing has just happened to me.

    I'm running Windows on Parallels but my files have reverted to over a year ago, and they were my yearly accounts.

    There must be a way to get these files back - surely.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-02T01:12:28+00:00

    RichardJones2112: Good luck with that, I hope you get it sorted. I'm lucky that I never trusted it totally. In fact, I switched from a local cloud backup service because it crashed. I haven't had any issues since I reset and reinstalled it, but I'll never use OneDrive as my primary data store.

    I hear rumours that Microsoft are going to try to force users onto the cloud for both apps and data. We would be reverting to the 1970s and dumb terminals. (I'm old enough to remember when we stopped using punched cards and paper tape for data entry.)

    This move would make OneDrive irrelevant. Maybe that's why there doesn't seem to be anybody from the OneDrive team listening any more. (They're still taking my payments, though )

    I must say that Microsoft developers would need to be completely divorced from their users, if they thought that the rest of humanity had access to the same SuperGigabyteDataBlaster broadband they have. In this real world, I think I'd be forced to swallow my pride after all these decades and switch to Apple.

    Imagine! No more BSODs!

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-03-03T23:03:14+00:00

    Same here. They aren't for work but I feel for this issue. I think I'm going back to google drive. -_-

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