Onedrive first time setup files missing.

[kol12]

I just signed into onedrive for the first time on my new Win 10 install. During setup I changed the onedrive folder location to my previous onedrive folder on another drive. It said something like the folder already existed and that it would merge the files if I chose to, so I did. Now it's gone and removed all of the files I had in there. It looks like the files are still in the cloud though when I log into onedrive via web browser, it's just removed them from onedrive on hdd. Any ideas what happened here?

 

[Colif]

Check and see they don't just show up back in folder over coming days. One drive likes to download them all again, even if you have them on the PC already. Downloading all my music again every time I redirect my folder would be a pain if my ISP didn't give me 1tb dl a month.

did you take ownership of the old folders in the one drive folder you pointed them at as maybe win 10 sees they made by other user and has hidden them from Onedrive.

Always good idea not to have Onedrive folder on C with an SSD, waste of space. I know you moved it, just saying.

 

[kol12]

I just noticed my recycle bin is full and they're all in there! If I restore them to the One drive folder they all have red x's on them. Clicking on view sync problems from within One drive I get the following message:

I've got One drive on my D:

 

[Colif]

That is a fault of Onedrive, it likes to think the versions of files on server are better than any you have on PC, even if they exactly same files. Its why i use it to store my files now, I got sick of arguing with it.

Why not do same, just use the onedrive versions instead of local ones? Saves space? Is it a matter of download speed being a barrier to doing that?

I just noticed I have two one drive folders on my hdd, one is my Onedrive folder from previous install, I just put it on a 2nd partition this install. Two times all my music in there... I really should wipe my storage drive next time I install win 10. Seems my fix last time was just choose a different partition instead of arguing with Onedrive.

 

[kol12]

Yeah, when I set the onedrive location back to my previous one (upon first time setup) I think it was complaining that the files in that folder were already on the server, it's rather confusing and it moved all of those files to recycle bin.

Are you saying that once you have files uploaded you no longer keep them locally?

 

[Colif]

They are local as Onedrive saves them to its own folder, but I just made a folder in the Onedrive shortcut in explorer, and just chose to ignore what it did with it otherwise - it means I know its backed up everytime I save it. One drive is a massive waste of space. I don't see why it can't just link your files to its server without having to make its own copy locally.

The Win 8 version of Onedrive was closer to what it should be, you could have place holder links on your PC to files uploaded to it, so you could just have the online. This one is stupid, now if you connect a new PC to Onedrive and already have a lot of data on it, it could try to download it all onto your PC. This tripped up a ton of people who switched from Win 8 on tablets with very small storage drives.

I have hopes one day it will be right, same as I hope that multi desktop function will eventually remember what was on each desktop after a restart (not talking about multi monitor).