Force sync in OneDrive

Three hours ago I created a small Excel file on my travel laptop and then moved up to my office onto my heavier PC. Since then I have been trying to get OneDrive to show the file on my "Office" pc.

The file is on the OneDrive server. I can down load it fine but I need to sync any changes.

This is busted. Its been busted for a long while according to this blog. If I cannot trust file sharing software to either work or give a clue as to the problem how can I trust the security of any of Windows 11 products.

As a programmer if you can't maintain existing code you should not be working on new code. Maintenance programming is where you learn the glads and sads about your development tools.

I am going to have to revert to FTP to get a clear simple working way to share files. At some random time my file will pop up in OneDrive but who knows when or why. I ran a team developing production critical software. This is a nightmare. You don't know what is broken or what will break when further releases are made. Like taking a trip on an under tested rocket to a space station.

This problem is still occurring one year later. There seems no solution in sight. So I down load online and then will the two versions now synch?

Fix the bug. Oh first recreate the bug then fix it. Basic practice. It may be hard so get a clever guy on it until its fixed.

Unfortunately OneDrive.exe does not exist in that folder on my machine. (I have hidden files shown, so that's not the issue I believe)

OneDrive.exe located in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive - not in Windows system folders.

(%userprofile% variable points to C:\Users"your_username" - for example, on my computer it would expand to

C:\Users\andre\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive)

To force synchronization manually for your OneDrive files you can use the following batch file -

cd %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive

OneDrive.exe /shutdown

OneDrive.exe /background

Store the batch file somewhere on your computer, then save the shortcut to it on your desktop - and you will be able to force-sync files with just one double-click on this shortcut.

Hope this helps, best regards,

Andre

I cannot find a onedrive.exe (presumably in Windows System folders. I can only find OneDriveSetup.exe.

C:\Windows\WinSxS\wow64_microsoft-windows-onedrive-setup_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.19041.1_none_e585f901f9ce93e6

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.5247]

I would prefer a CLI command, if a GUI option was FFS not made available, however that suggestion has to be valid. If there are caveats to its presence, then the one offering the info should know if and offer up such advise in their position as "expert".

Looking for other methods, as I have already share files and feel disconnecting from the drive may break those links.