Force sync in OneDrive

Anonymous
2024-02-13T08:24:30+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-10-19T18:07:35+00:00

    I'll be more polite than most of the replies, but this is a worthless answer.

    Unlinking and re-linking my computer is not a solution. That might be the answer if OneDrive has stopped syncing entirely and every other option has failed. But it's not the answer to force a sync-on-demand. It would take hours for that to re-download all my files.

    And the "onedrive.exe /sync" suggestion doesn't work at all. It opens up an Explorer window to my OneDrive folder, but nothing is updated.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-30T10:13:40+00:00

    I don't know if this has been mentioned, but the easiest way I've found to force sync is to pic I file I know has been recently modified and right-click>version history.

    Cheers!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-09-19T00:40:21+00:00

    Sync button is ok idea, but they don't need it, there is already F5, except it also doesn't do anything. That should force a folder to sync. If there is an authentication error as some mentioned, then they should ask for credentials. This is super simple stuff, it really shows their contempt for us.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-03T12:57:06+00:00

    This way worked for me! Going to write a text file in the OneDrive so I dont have to look on internet everysingle time something doesnt sync (which is almost everytime).

    Found another way that involve erasing some temp files, dont remember which ones but:

    Windows + R

    Write: %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\settings

    Erase something there...

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-06-03T16:32:42+00:00

    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.

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