Windows 10: My OneDrive Folder Is Empty

Discus and support My OneDrive Folder Is Empty in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Hello All, I just have a simple question. I use OneDrive regularly for different sharing options, either for music or for documents and even pictures.... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by Rocky, Mar 30, 2017.

  1. Rocky Win User

    My OneDrive Folder Is Empty


    Hello All,
    I just have a simple question. I use OneDrive regularly for different sharing options, either for music or for documents and even pictures. I just clicked on my OneDriver folder in my File Explorer and it is empty. I have not emptied it but I went there to delete a file.

    What could have happened to all of my data and can I retrieve it?



    :)
     
    Rocky, Mar 30, 2017
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    Thanks for the suggestion. When I try this, on pressing "Restore Default" to the empty Documents folder in "My PC" it tells me that it intends to relocate the folder from C:\Users\{user name}\OneDrive\Documents to C:\Users\{user name}\Documents
    but on clicking OK it reports back "Access Denied".

    What this is telling me is that the empty Documents folder under "My PC" is actually a OneDrive folder - in contrast, the Pictures, Videos, Download folders under "My PC" are
    not OneDrive. I'd assumed that the empty Documents folder was a C:\ folder not a OneDrive folder so that's an interesting observation.

    Is there any way of pinning C:\Users\{user name}\Document to "My PC"?
     
    london20000, Mar 30, 2017
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    is your onedrive online empty on your Microsoft account onedrive page.

    when you select to show folder on PC onedrive folder, it should be same folders and files.
     
    seahawks65, Mar 30, 2017
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  4. Rocky Win User

    My OneDrive Folder Is Empty

    OK, this is even weirder. I went to add a picture to my OneDrive folder and when I did it has a big red X on the file. Am I banned from One Drive?
     
    Rocky, Mar 30, 2017
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  5. Rocky Win User
    OK, thanks guys. It was just as easy as verifying my account after a clean install of Windows 10 1703.
     
    Rocky, Mar 30, 2017
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  6. spunk Win User
    re-grant permission to this folder: 1.Right click at the OneDrive folder, and choose properties.

    2.Click “security” item, and then choose “edit

    3. add your use account to this.
    Or you can change the default OneDrive folder for this:
    1.Open File Explorer.
    2.Press and hold or right-click OneDrive in the left pane.
    3.Tap or click Properties, and then tap or click the Location tab.

    4.Tap or click Move.
    5.In the Move Folder dialog box, tap or click Yes.
    If this still fails, uninstall OneDrive from the control panel and install it again.
     
    spunk, Mar 30, 2017
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  7. Rocky Win User
    Thank you very much but my user account is already there as is SYSTEM and Desktop Administrator. I actually do not know what to do at this point because it seemed to work for a minute after I verified this computer, but now I have the red X back.
     
    Rocky, Mar 30, 2017
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  8. spunk Win User

    My OneDrive Folder Is Empty

    Did you try the Location tab?
     
    spunk, Mar 30, 2017
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  9. Rocky Win User
    I'm sorry, I couldn't find the location tab. I did go to OneDrive online and all of my old files were there, I just can't access them from file explorer. I will keep looking.
     
    Rocky, Mar 30, 2017
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  10. spunk Win User
  11. Rocky Win User
    I am sorry for your troubles, the fix was easy and it was all my fault. Early this morning I was working on an archive project where I absolutely needed access to my OneDrive folder, so all I did was rename the internal folders of OneDrive, one at a time, and that took the red X off the entire folder. I guess that these files are very name sensitive because it only took me a couple of minutes to change thew name one at a time and then the whole thing worked.
     
    Rocky, Apr 5, 2018
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