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Discus and support onedrive duplicating my folders... in Windows 10 Network and Sharing to solve the problem; 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,... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Network and Sharing' started by Michel Chiangmai, Jan 26, 2019.

  1. MICHEL CHIANGMAI
    Michel Chiangmai Win User

    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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    Michel Chiangmai, Jan 26, 2019
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  2. CHRISCOWLES
    ChrisCowles Win User

    OneDrive resulted in duplicate Documents folders, can't merge

    I did try restore but it wouldn't let me. The result was the same, that being that it complained of there already being a system folder there (i.e., users\Chris\Documents, etc.)

    I just looked in HKCU... as suggested and found the folders defined as "C:\Users\Chris\OneDrive\...". Interestingly, I found a couple of GUIDs other than the Download folder you referred to above. Both point to "%UserProfile%\OneDrive\...". They duplicate
    the explicitly named Personal and Pictures folders assigned to "C:\Users\Chris\OneDrive\...", i.e., they point to the same folder.

    Only Personal, Pictures and Desktop are assigned using the C:\Users\Chris\OneDrive string. As above, Personal and Pictures are duplicated as GUIDs. Desktop is not duplicated.

    Can I just delete the GUID duplicates of Personal and Pictures (not Downloads) and change the OneDrive entries to "%UserProfile%\...," as some others are assigned?

    Is it atypical that Cache is defined as "C:\Users\Chris\AppData\...", unlike other AppData folders defined using "%UserProfile%\..."?

    Edit: if editing HKCU directly results in the duplicate folders remaining, that's fine. I can just move the contents of the unwanted folders into the corresponding defined system folder, then delete the duplicate folders.
     
    ChrisCowles, Jan 26, 2019
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  3. MT-PMI
    MT-PMI Win User
    OneDrive syncing duplicate folders

    OneDrive keeps notifying "duplicate files" but is not saving both folders, cannot even find duplicates and will not stop syncing.

    We have this connected to a network with multiple PCs. How to fix the synching issue and duplicate files?
     
    MT-PMI, Jan 26, 2019
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  4. STEVEN M. VASCELLARO
    Steven M. Vascellaro Win User

    onedrive duplicating my folders...

    Duplicated Onedrive icon in explorer

    According to Microsoft Forum Moderator Ruizell Rey:

     
    Steven M. Vascellaro, Jan 26, 2019
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