If OneDrive on your Windows 10 computer is terrible, this article will help you.
As you know, OneDrive is deeply integrated into Windows 10 by Microsoft, and it will be an excellent solution for you to back up and sync data on all devices. However, if, unfortunately, one day, OneDrive problems and you can not perform the backup, as well as sync data between devices and computers, it would be very annoying.
If you are in the situation where OneDrive on Windows 10 has a sync problem, this article will suggest some solutions to help check and fix, specifically as follows.
First, you need to perform a check to see if this is a system problem or caused by OneDive by:
Right-click on the OneDrive icon in the system tray and select ” View online “.
Then the web browser will open and access the OneDrive web-based page, then check if the data can be uploaded or not. If the data cannot be uploaded, this may be due to an OneDrive server problem, and you may have to wait a few minutes for Microsoft to fix it.
If you want to be more specific, you can visit the Microsoft server service status information management page here. If you see green traces, this indicates that everything is okay. If the problem is with OneDrive, you have no other choice but to wait until it works again.
Perform an OneDrive reboot on Windows 10
Sometimes turning off and reopening OneDrive is also a solution that brings entirely unexpected results for you as follows.
Right-click on the OneDrive icon in the system tray and select “Close OneDrive”.
Then open the Start Menu and click OneDrive to restart it.
Check storage capacity
Usually, with each account, Microsoft will provide users with free 15GB of storage space. If you have an Office 365 plan subscription, the number of available storage may be more significant. However, if you care less about limits and are comfortable storing your data, maybe the amount of space allocated will eventually run out. Back up or synchronization may not be possible then.
To make sure you’re not in this situation, check by right-clicking the OneDrive icon in the system tray and selecting Settings. Then click on the Account tab and check.
If you run out of space, clean up unnecessary data to free up space or upgrade to paid plans so you can finish.
Check data compatibility
Next, you need to check if the amount of uploaded data exceeds the 20GB allowed limit or greater than the account’s remaining free space. If so, perform data compression to resize the file.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Microsoft only limits filenames to about 400 characters and does not contain special characters such as “*: <>? / |. If your data is within the limit, uploads will not take place.
Update Windows and OneDrive
Sometimes the problem may also be because Windows and OneDrive have new versions and need to be updated, so backing up and syncing data can also be problematic.
Usually, this update happens automatically, but to be sure, you should perform a manual check and update from Settings> Update & Security> Check for updates.
Update your OneDrive account on Windows 10
Sometimes the problem lies in connecting the OneDrive account on Windows 10. In this case, you can try to update your account again by clicking the Unlink account option on the Account tab.
Then re-add the account from the Setup OneDrive menu.
Reset the entire OneDrive app on Windows 10
Finally, suppose the above solutions do not bring the expected results. In that case, you can try the final solution is to perform a full reset of the OneDrive app on Windows 10, specifically as follows.
Right-click on the Start button and select Windows PowerShell (Admin).
Enter the command “% localappdata% Microsoft OneDrive onedrive.exe / reset” into Windows PowerShell and press ENTER to execute. Please wait a few seconds for the task to complete, and when it’s done, open the Start Menu and click OneDrive to launch it, then log in and make your selections synchronize again.
I hope the article will be useful to you.
Source: GenK
