Windows 10: Can I restore a video file that was too large to be synced to OneDrive?

Hi, I had a very large video file 165GB that I imported onto my laptop's desktop. The file was too large to be synced to my personal OneDrive, and I think I tried to move it over to my school account and thought I still had a copy of it on my personal OneDrive. I deleted the file on my school OneDrive when it was in the middle of syncing and had that processing symbol next to it. Is there any way I can get the file back? I've tried recovery software and none of them have been able to locate the file and I've tried restoring previous versions of both OneDrives but the file doesn't show up on

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Files not syncing to OneDrive

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I understand that you are facing issues not syncing properly with OneDrive.

I suggest you to refer the troubleshooting steps in the article
Fix OneDrive sync problems and check if it works for you.

For more information, you can check the article to
Sync files with the OneDrive sync client in Windows.

If you are still facing the issue, I suggest you to get in touch with the OneDrive support team.

Sign in to OneDrive.com from any browser, click the ‘?’ help icon on the top banner of the page and select
Email OneDrive support. Submit your question and follow the prompts to request support.

Hope it helps.

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

OneDrive Placeholders are coming back, now called On-Demand Sync




"At Ignite 2016, Microsoft has just announced that it is bringing Placeholders back to OneDrive on Windows 10. Now, they are not called Placeholders anymore — Microsoft is renaming the feature to “On-Demand Sync” which makes a lot more sense than “Placeholders”.

The company demoed this feature at Microsoft Ignite today, and it works just like it used to previously. As you can see in the screenshot above, the files stored in OneDrive weighed in around 9GB, but the actual size on disk was only around 3MB which is really neat. Of course, this feature isn’t anything new as it was available back in the Windows 8 days. However, Microsoft removed the feature with Windows 10, and after lots of waiting, they are finally coming back.

In case you are not familiar with OneDrive Placeholders, it’s a pretty neat feature which lets you see all of your OneDrive files on your computer — but they are not actually downloaded on your PC. When you open them, OneDrive will download the files on-demand, saving your local space which is really useful, especially if you have a PC that doesn’t have a lot of storage.

While Microsoft didn’t announce when exactly On-Demand Sync will be available to OneDrive users, we suspect it will be available with Windows 10 Redstone 2 — which is expected to arrive early next year. "

OneDrive Placeholders are coming back, now called On-Demand Sync - MSPoweruser

 

OneDrive synch keeps re-synching large file.

I have copied a large video file (35GB) that has been successfully synced with OneDrive in the cloud (OnLine). I see the all files are uptodate message. When I then add other photos that start synching, this file starts synching againg. This has happened more than ten times. The OnLine synched file is OK in that the video, ahared with another user, can be played. Synching this file takes ages and slows everything down. I have this problem before with other large video files. When I reset OneDrive, it seems to go away. However, reseeting OneDrive starrs with synching 250,000 files, which takes forever as well.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong, or any work arounds, or fixes would be most welcome!