By now OneDrive has grown up. It can be managed with group policies, it’s good for large companies dealing with the Modern Workplace, as for the individual user who "just" syncs his photos to the cloud. The variety of functions is still increasing, and the interface is being expanded and redesigned for the various mobile devices. Even if some MVP colleagues tell me they can not work with it because …
They are so many reasons. OneDrive for Business and OneDrive Personal are no longer network drives, and Microsoft still needs some improvement. But the ladies and gentlemen from Redmond are on the right path.
Sometimes, however, errors occur, and because Microsoft not only processes data with the Next Generation Sync Client (NGSC), no, even in Windows Explorer under Windows 10 or under the latest Office versions, OneDrive is integrated and makes troubleshooting difficult.
But Microsoft collected several Errors, not only the description, no, they give you advice, what do you have to do. A solution. And the list collects more than 120 issues
You may start here or with the list below
Windows
Icon | Error | items |
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OneDrive sync error | 15 |
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OneDrive for Business sync error | 12 |
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OneDrive processing changes | 9 |
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OneDrive paused | 2 |
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OneDrive account nearly full | 2 |
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OneDrive account full, locked or frozen | 1 |
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OneDrive not signed in | 1 |
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SkyDrive sync error (Windows 8.1) | 12 |
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Mac
Icon | Error | items |
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OneDrive for Mac sync error | 13 |
Mobil
Icon | Error | items |
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OneDrive active notification in Android | 1 |
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Troubleshoot OneDrive for Android | 11 |
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Troubleshoot OneDrive for iOS | 8 |
Windows File-Explorer / macOS Finder
Icon | Error | items |
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OneDrive sync error | 15 |
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OneDrive processing changes | 10 |
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File locked | 1 |
Of course there are other aids. For example, in this blog. For example, a reset. But just look in the blog itself. Good succeed.
I hope that with this contribution I could help one or the other user / administrator.