OneDrive for Business Opening Multiple Instances of Itself
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Solved!
Well, after a few hours of trying different things, including:
- Numerous re-boots
- scouring MS support
- "repairing" OneDrive via the Add or Remove Programs & Features menu
- Uninstalling ODfB
- Uninstalling ODfB AND Microsoft Office
I came across the following MS support page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3038627
I know Microsoft likes to change their support pages around every-so-often and break links, so here is an archived copy of the page just in case: How to remove the OneDrive for Business cache by using the "Fix it" tool
Anyway, this FixIt tool successfully stopped ODfB from opening repeatedly. IT WILL BREAL ALL SYNCED FOLDER LINKS, so be sure to have a back-up in place if necessary. Once it runs you can re-sync the folders, but you will have to download everything from the server. For some reason ODfB doesn't "merge" the client-side files with the server-side ones like Dropbox.
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Mine is doing the same
Hi, Thanks for this... I have one question. I have a onedrive, the one which is automatic in the Windows 8.1 version, where I have all my private stuff on.
And then I have my Onedrive for Business - which I am not using as much. If I am using MS fix - is it only affecting the OdfB or also my normal Onedrive?
Cheers,
Brian
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Hi, Thanks for this... I have one question. I have a onedrive, the one which is automatic in the Windows 8.1 version, where I have all my private stuff on.
And then I have my Onedrive for Business - which I am not using as much. If I am using MS fix - is it only affecting the OdfB or also my normal Onedrive?
Cheers,
Brian
Hi Brian,
Unfortunately, I am not familiar enough with OneDrive or ODfB to confidently provide an answer to your question. Hopefully someone else on the forum will be able to assist!
Best of luck,
-James
Last edited by Burtonrider1002; 25 Sep 2015 at 11:49.