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Cloud storage service from Microsoft (formerly known as SkyDrive)

OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) is a free cloud storage service from Microsoft. In addition to allowing users to upload they can sync their files with various devices via the web interface or a local drive.

Questions regarding the web interface of OneDrive may already have an answer at Web Applications.

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Skydrive is constantly syncing showing processing changes

All documents and folders show the "Green checkmark" icon indicating that they have been sync'd but the skydrive icon in the system tray still shows that it's "processing changes" Unlinking/relinking Skydrive doesn't fix the problem
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How to remove green check marks from OneDrive Windows 7

Can someone please tell me if I'm able to remove the green check marks in OneDrive for Windows 7? It just looks annoying to see all the green check marks. Thanks, David
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Why is OneDrive changing the size of files?

I've been tasked with migrating a live SharePoint document library to another document library. As we want to keep downtime to a minimum, I've synchronised the two document libraries to my PC using OneDrive and I'm using robocopy to mirror between…
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How do I know what Microsoft account the skydrive app is syncing to?

Some time ago, I set up skydrive for my wife on her mac. But now she wants to access the files online, I cannot remember what Microsoft account I setup and linked her skydive app to and nor can I see anything in the skydrive app settings to tell me…
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How to set up SkyDrive to just store my files and not sync them?

I have loads of pictures I no longer want to store on my computer. I've backed them up to an external hard drive and now I want to back them up to the cloud. If I put them in the "SkyDrive Folder" they sync to the cloud but they will also be…
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Why are all images from my PC copied into One Drive?

I was looking through my photos on One Drive and noticed that every jpg on my PC has been copied up to the cloud. This is wasting a tremendous amount of space and I am afraid that deleting them will delete them from my PC. These are not only jpgs…
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All Office 365 files open "Read Only" after activating OneDrive

I have hundreds of Office files (Word, Excel, etc.) in the Documents folder on my laptop drive (C:). They are all editable (i.e., none of them is designated "Read Only"). This morning I activated my OneDrive account and copied some Word and Excel…
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How do I transfer pictures from OneDrive to my laptop?

How do I transfer my pics from one drive into my laptop? I tried downloading but it didn't work and there are too many to do one at a time.
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"Set up OneDrive" dialog box keeps appearing every login

Every time I start up my windows 10 Home edition PC, after a few minutes this thing will pop up. I always have to close it, then go to its tray icon and close it there. I don't want to use it. How can I stop it from starting up every day? I use a…
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Invalid characters in file or folder names or invalid file types in OneDrive for Business

I want to redirect my profile folder (Docs/Pics/Desktop) to my OneDrive for Business folder. I have Visual Studio installed, so I have folders I cannot change with names containing the # character, like C:\Users\MyName\OneDrive -…
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OneDrive Recycle Bin Access Denied

After OneDrive was recently updated to 17.3.4724 on Windows 7 x64 I started getting Recycle Bin Access Denied message every time a file from OneDrive folder needs to be deleted. Anyone else experienced this and most importantly anyone figured out a…
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Fix Duplicate OneDrive Folders

I have 3 folders under "This PC" named OneDrive caused by I think my making My Documents, Download, and Destop folders OneDrive folders. Best I can remember I did this by changing the target drive where the data is saved. Problem now is all 3…
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How to access OneDrive in Windows 8.1 without creating a Windows user

At home I've been using OneDrive in Windows 7 until now. I used my Gmail email address to log in and it worked okay. At my workplace, I use Windows 8.1. When I try to use OneDrive it asks for a USER (represented by a Microsoft account) on that…
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How do I detect the location of onedrive desktop client folder

How can you detect the location of the Onedrive Desktop Client's folder? I'm looking for the Onedrive equivalent of this Dropbox question. Edit: This applies to detection of the desktop version in Vista/7 as well as the version that ships with 8.1.
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Onedrive can't upload folders or empty files

I just tried to upload a VM virtual machine file to Microsoft sky drive and got the error: Sorry Onedrive can't upload folders or empty files. The file isn't empty! It's 6 GB. What's going on?
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