Windows 10: Onedrive will not sync as Excel/Word etc. says the name has invalid characters in the...

Onedrive has been working fine all year, then I believe an update October 2024 has caused an issue/bug. can create a Word/Excel file and on the first save this seems okay and syncs, but if I add anything a word in the doc say and then Save without changing the filename it does the following:1. Change the file name in the document right at the top from e.g. Test to MY2. Hits with the "Upload Failed: The file or folder name contains invalid characters. Save a copy with a different nameSame doc as above - just added the second row of wording, then hit save - invoking the name changeTo fi

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All my files are locked and they won't open in excel nor word. it says its the wrong file type. But they are correct file type.

When I try to open my excel or word files it say it's an invalid extension. but these are excel and word files, all the files appear to be kidnapped by OneDrive and it won't release them to me.

 

OneDrive Sync Issue

Honestly, I don't understand why you haven't already tried to boot with WinPE or other live disk and manually remove the file? This example using Macrium WinPE boot disk, download Macrium Free and let it create a boot disk for you. Option to create one is shown automatically when you launch Macrium first time:

1. Switch to C: drive
   
2. Change the working folder to your OneDrive folder
   
3. Check that the file has no Read Only (r) and System (s) attributes set. As the file name in your case is quite long, you don't have to type the full name. Use the *.* wildcard to replace any number of characters in file name and any extension, in your case command attrib .849C*.* should be enough
   
4. If r and / or s attributes are shown for the file, remove them with command attrib .849C*.* -r -s
   
5. Check that attributes r & s are removed
   
6. Delete the file with del .849C*.*

(Steps 3 & 5 not necessary; step 3 because removing attributes as in step 4 removes them if set but does no harm if not set, and step 5 because the attrib command works for 100% sure if no error messages are given.)

The file should be removed now. You can test with command dir .849C*.*, it should not be shown anymore.

 

OneDrive - Invalid File Name

Hi All

Recently I add new folders to me OneDrive location. Apperently one of sub folders name was invalid one for OneDrive.
When I tried to change this folder name or delete it I'm getting error saying:
“Could not find this item. This is no longer located in [Path]. Verify the item’s location and try again”

In the mean time the sync task of all my other files are stuck and every time I'm shuting down my machine I'm getting:

"The Instruction at 0x00### referenced memory at 0x00###. The memory could not be written”

Can any one here can help me solve this issue?

OS version: 1903, build number: 18362.476