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Is there any way of forcing OneDrive to sync? Let's say a user uploads a document on one client, and user 2 wants to access that document immediately on his client, but onedrive haven't synced that folder yet.
Is there a way to force a manual sync? Ideally with like a .bat file or something that i can pin to the taskbar that the user can just click to run just to speed up the process
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Seems like Pause syncing in the Settings and then followed by "click here to resume syncing" will force a sync.
Is there a command line for these 2 steps?
I tried that option and it did take a long, long time and did *not* fix the issue.
I completely agree with you. This thing is a disaster from the word go. POS. Glad I'm on a Mac. At least the iCloud synchs immediately and is available on all devices quickly.
I did not see the post with screenshots. I will look for it. Thank you. ☺️
One issue with my recipe, that was already indicated by some other users is that the OneDrive.EXE location is not identical on all types of Windows installations, so simple copy-pasting of my batch file just doesn't work.
I tried to explain how I figured out the location of this EXE file on my own PC in my answer to Chris Hire. I described in detail the whole process and even made some screenshots to make it easy to follow (this process is quite convoluted, I must admit - so I tried to make my answer clear to even "not tech savvy" users.)
If something is still not working for you - try to provide basic information what is the issue, where it breaks down - then I can try to help. You say - "I tried to follow the directions I found and they didn’t work" - this is not actionable, I don't know what you did and what exactly the issue was, so I can't help you more.
Have you seen my second answer to Chris Hire with the screenshots? Did you try to find correct location of OneDrive.exe on your particular PC?