Force sync in OneDrive

what is it with these people...how many ways can a manual sync be ineptly described by MS employee...don't you read it when people say "...it doesn't work..."???

Thanks much. I had done this in the past (intuitively?) and then forgotten it. Worked for what I needed to do; not sure it would work for all of the other posters.

I wish the manual sync option worked for me, but it just says that onedrive.exe doesn't exist in that folder. However, even though it's hugely inconvenient, the unlink option worked. Thank you!

EXE is not located in OneDrive folder under %userprofile%.

It is in fact located in The Program Files folder under Microsoft OneDrive.

\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive

you can copy paste cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive (NOTE: if you did not install to C: replace drive letter to your install directory)

then enter the command as above - onedrive.exe /sync

your OneDrive folder will open and then begin to synchronize to your OneDrive cloud.

There doesn't seem to be a /sync command line parameter for onedrive for business - so Nhiel's answer didn't help.

Pause and Unpause options work but require lots of clicks:

I've made a .bat batch file based on guidance elsewhere:

@echo off

cd "C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive"

OneDrive.exe /shutdown

start OneDrive.exe /background

exit

I've made a windows shortcut to this and run the shortcut minimised:

see here for further information:

https://superuser.com/questions/1742608/batch-script-to-pause-and-resume-one-drive-synchttps://superuser.com/questions/1151464/how-to-force-onedrive-to-synchronize