OneDrive missing after Windows 10 upgrade

I have upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 Pro.

I cannot seem to find OneDrive anywhere and I cannot install it either. When I try to download and install it, it says I have the most up-to-date version installed.

How do I get OneDrive up and running?

Solution 1:

I had a similar problem and tried all the suggested answers here without luck. What worked for me was the following :

execute %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\Update\OneDriveSetup.exe

It will ask you to sign in with your Microsoft account. After that it will start the sync process and the tray icon will be available again.

Solution 2:

I recently shifted to Windows 10.

After a while OneDrive was gone. I mean gone, not in Control Panel > Installed Programs, not in features, not running, not in Task Manager, etc.

From what I could understand OneDrive comes shipped OOTB with Windows 10 so you're not supposed to even have to install it in the first place.

The main behaviour was that, whatever I did (install onedrive, run it, reset it) I would always get a brief window that eventually closed and nothing else happened.

Online I've found two recommendations:

Reset OneDrive:

%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset

Run OneDrive:

%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe

Sadly, none of that worked so I tried:

gpedit.msc > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > OneDrive > "Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage" > Disabled

That also failed, so in the end what worked was deleting a registry setting:

regedit > localmachine > software > policies > Microsoft > Windows > OneDrive > DisableFileSync

or alternatively, save and run the below in a .reg file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\OneDrive] "DisableFileSyncNGSC"=-

run onedrive from local data and now it will open!

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Solution 3:

After having this same issue on a laptop & desktop after windows 10 upgrade I tried all of the things I read on the various forums. Ultimately for me the answer turned out to be very simple. I accessed the Onedrive account online. Then I removed all the connected devices. When I started Onedrive on the affected computers, it said it was no longer connected and asked for the username and password to reconnect. I entered it and it is back to normal. Did the same on the other PC and it worked as well. I believe the issue is somehow related to not recognizing the connected devices after the Win 10 upgrade. Anyway it worked for me, I hope it will help others.