After unsubscribing from my over priced Microsoft 365 account and downgrading to the free version I ended up with two OneDrive Personal icon links within Windows Explorer.

The most direct fix for duplicate OneDrive links within Windows Explorer is to edit the Windows Registry to remove the residual entry after unlinking or relinking accounts.

This article will guide you through the process I used to resolve duplicate OneDrive Personal folder icons from appearing within Windows Explorer on my PC.

 

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A client recently encountered an error while trying to save a file within their OneDrive folder on their computer. The error read, “The source and destination file names are the same.”

 

 

In this case, the solution was to simply reduce the length of the path to the file in question.

In this article I go into greater detail on the cause and solution to the OneDrive “The source and destination file names are the same.” error.

 

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This article will cover how to relocate the default directory of your Microsoft OneDrive folder. The below instructions should apply to all versions of OneDrive; OneDrive (work or school), OneDrive (home or personal), OneDrive for Windows

 

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When a file appears to have been updated on more than one PC, OneDrive may be unable to merge both versions. To help prevent the loss of data, OneDrive simply creates a new file with the computer name appended to the end of the file to distinguish which files have been changed and from which computer.

For example, if you have a laptop that isn’t connected to the internet and update the “OneDrive/MyFile.docx” file. Because the laptop isn’t online it cannot sync. But now you (or someone) also ends up updating the “OneDrive/MyFile.docx” file on an internet connected desktop PC. When your laptop goes back online, OneDrive will have a conflict because the file was updated on two different computers at seeming different times. As a result, OneDrive creates the conflict copy: “OneDrive/MyFile-LaptopName.docx“.

 

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