Windows 10: Find Duplicate Files in OneDrive Online

Veepo · Oct 23, 2022

Hello,Is there a method to detect duplicate files ONLINE in OneDrive?*Not locally in the files structure*Or is the only way to sort by name and compare file size?What about issues when you have two files:"File1.log"and"File1.log - copy"that are the same size but have different content?Help?Thanks,

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Michel Chiangmai · Oct 23, 2022

onedrive duplicating my folders...

Hi.

Again, onedrive is going crazy and is duplicating my main folder, full of subfolders. It's locking me out of all my files. I have windows 10, Office 365 home. I paused synch at the moment before I have 1000 copy of my folder, which I can't open anyway!
Please don't ask me any question that will further delay the repair. Simply give me a step by step solution and then improve onedrive so this won't happen again to so many of us. I suggest you also add "onedrive" in the list of "Windows Topics" below since
thousands of users have issues with it.

Thanks

Michel

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etcg31 · Oct 23, 2022

OneDrive Duplication of files

Hi,

Im'using Onedrive for years without mistake before.

Since some days, I encounter a big problem with OneDrive.

I manage a lot of pictures using the keywords.

Since few days, each files with modified keyword are duplicated into the Onedrive folder into my computer.

If I delete this duplicated files, OneDrive made a new copy !

OneDrive give the message that it cannot merge the file and duplicate it.

I made an re-init of Onedrive without success.

Could I obtain help from the Community here ?

Please help me.

Thanks for alll response.

Regards

KeithM · Oct 23, 2022

Duplicate OneDrive entry unexpectedly appears in File Explorer

Thank you for the reply Keith.
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You're welcome

I've just tried what you suggested. The response was a pop-up stating, "This file does not have an app associated with it for performing this action. Please install an app or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Apps Settings page.".
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Finally, I tried the same command on my wife's normal user account and the result was different - on this occasion, a window opened inviting me to "Set up OneDrive"!

If you recall, my wife's account is the only one that has the mystery CLSID in the path HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID. Furthermore, after searching for the mystery CLSID in the registry on all three accounts on my PC, the mystery CLSID is only visible when searching on my wife's account. This is a revelation to me. I was under the impression that an administrator had access to all information in the registry, but that appears not to be true.
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You do have access, but the data that populates HKCU is only loaded for the logged in user by default. If you want to edit the HKCU data for another user when logged on as Administrator, you have to load their user hive into Regedit, edit as desired, and then unload the hive to save the changes.

Open RegEdit

Select the HKEY_USERS key

From the nemu: File -> Load Hive...

In the Load Hive dialog, navigate to the desired user's profile folder and select the ntuser.dat file

You'lll be prompted for a name, which can be anything -- it's not persistent with the file

And you then have access to the other user's registry hive

The situation was further complicated because OneDrive was again refreshed in the background on my PC today and, as I had feared, this resulted again in duplicate entries of OneDrive in the navigation pane of File Explorer on my wife's account only. (Why is my wife's account being picked on?) So, again, I had to change the value System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree of the mystery CLSID from 1 to 0 in order to remove the duplication. I now feel more than ever that I need to get rid of this mystery CLSID from the registry.
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I'd like to see an export before you delete it! *Biggrin

I would start by deleting the corresponding key under:

<User>\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace

In the hope that it might help the situation, and because my wife and I don't use OneDrive, I have now used the Group Policy Editor to enable "Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage" in the path Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\OneDrive. Among other things, this has the effect of removing the OneDrive entry from File Explorer and the standard CLSID for OneDrive, {081D…1FE6}, is no longer visible as a key in the registry.

For information ... It appears that I have only one version of OneDrive on my system. This is the desktop version that came with Windows 10 and is apparently officially called Microsoft OneDrive. The version of OneDrive that is available from the Microsoft Store is not installed.
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