Urgent: Files Reverting to Older Versions on OneDrive

Anonymous
2024-05-25T06:34:20+00:00

Dear Microsoft Support,

I am experiencing an issue where many of my recently used files on OneDrive have reverted to older versions over the past few months. It is only today that I have discovered this issue. I access OneDrive on two PCs, my phone, and frequently online at work.

Typically, I notice a file has been overwritten with an older version when I check the version history and see two entries with the exact same date and time. Often, the overwritten version’s file size matches that of an older version from a few entries back on the list. There is no consistency in the dates and times when this issue occurs. It seems to be happening randomly. I've found that this has occurred with hundred's of my files.

This problem has been very frustrating and has significantly undermined my confidence in OneDrive. Could you please advise me if you're aware of any such issues and if you're working to resolve them. Also, can you please advise me as to how I can prevent this from happening in the future?

Thank you for your assistance.

Regards,

Michael

Edit: Further to the above, I've also discovered that OneDrive doesn't sync automatically between my PC and Laptop when I make changes to files. I have to quit and then re-start OneDrive on the other computer in order for it to sync and receive the updated file. It also doesn't automatically sync when I attempt to restore to a previous version. In order for it to update the file back to the pervious version I have to quit and re-start OneDrive (or possibly just pause and resume syncing, which I never tried).

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-10-08T07:37:21+00:00

    Hi,

    Do you know if this issue was fixed by MS OneDrive team?

    We need some info about it because it seems that the problem still exists.

    What is the status from OneDrive team. Also what causes the issues? What was the reason of such things.

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  2. Craig Long 18,630 Reputation points
    2024-09-23T18:45:32+00:00

    Are you sure the most recent files were uploaded successfully to OneDrive in the first place?

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  3. Craig Long 18,630 Reputation points
    2024-07-05T07:20:13+00:00

    I don't understand why this is happening. It's never happened to me. If I can figure it out, I'll get back to you.

    Click on "Ask a new question" at the top of this page, and maybe someone else can help.

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  4. Craig Long 18,630 Reputation points
    2024-07-05T03:43:18+00:00

    When you delete files, make sure OneDrive is running. The online versions will not be deleted if you are not signed in. Then, after being offline, when you sign back into OneDrive, the online versions will download to the OneDrive folder.

    Cleaning up your files without being signed in to OneDrive is a mistake.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-07-04T22:05:57+00:00

    I'm having the opposite issue, where all my files are being duplicated, no matter how many times I delete the new duplicate (which is actually the original file) a new one is created, it really is so extremely frustrating. I'm talking about tens of thousands of files; it has bloated my Hard drive. It just shouldn't happen! It seems that just opening the folder to search for a file causes OneDrive to create new versions of all the files in that folder

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