Windows 10: Onedrive overwrites newer files

Somehow after a while onedrive started working on my surface and laptop and it overwrote newer files including several excel spreadsheets. I was under the impression that files would not be overwrote if newer files existed.

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Onedrive overwrites newer files

Somehow after a while onedrive started working on my surface and laptop and it overwrote newer files including several excel spreadsheets. I was under the impression that files would not be overwrote if newer files existed.

 

Onedrive overwrites newer files

Hi Earl. I'm Greg, an installation specialist, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, and Volunteer Moderator, here to help you.

The way OneDrive should work if it sees two versions of the same file is to always use the latest, unless they have been created by different users in which case it should save both with each PC name appended.

You can recover an older version by using File History and selecting an older version from the file Properties box Version tab:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/restor...

Deleted files are always kept in the OneDrive Recycle Bin until you give the OK to empty it.

I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and keep me posted. If you'll wait to rate whether my post resolved your problem, I will keep working with you until it's resolved.

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Overwrite big files in OneDrive without downloading them

Hi,

I have a bunch of big files (PSD files that I use in photoshop) that are synched up to OneDrive. I also have some of those files backed up on an external drive from where I used to edit them. Whenever I crate a new version of the a given file - with the
same name - I want to update the copy in OneDrive using the OneDrive folder integrated to Explorer. As I set the files in OneDrive to On-Demand, they are usually not available on any of the local drives. Therefore, when I try to overwrite them with a modified
one, the OneDrive application downloads them first, then asks whether I'd like to overwrite the files or not, after I click yes, the files are overwritten and uploaded to OneDrive. At the end I can set again the only On-Demand flag for the files.

My question is that, how can I overwrite my files on OneDrive without downloading them? I suppose the download is necessary to compare the to be copied with the already uploaded file in order to decided whether two is the same or not, and whether an overwrite
is necessary.

Let me illustrate my problem with an example: I have a file named "photo.psd" on my OneDrive. The size of this file is relatively large (~1Gb). In my OneDrive folder I've set for this file the On-Demand attribute, therefore it's not available on my local
disk. I have a copy of the same file on an external hard drive. After I edit the copy on the external drive I'd like to overwrite the original file. When I open two Explorer, one showing my OneDrive folder the other showing the copy on my external drive, and
drag and drop the copy, then first the original photo.psd is downloaded then the window appears asking whether I'd like to overwrite a file and only after I click yes start the upload process. How can I avoid the unnecessary download, when I want only to overwrite
the file?

Thanks,

Janos