OneDrive

Connect to OneDrive without setting up OneDrive

• go to your OneDrive online and log in
• in the address bar, you see something like https://onedrive.live.com/?id=root&cid=0123456789ABCDEF
• copy the value behind cid=
• in Windows Explorer:
  • enter https://d.docs.live.net/YourCIDNumber/
    or
  • enter \\d.docs.live.net@SSL\DavWWWRoot\<YourCIDNumber> you are prompted to enter your Microsoft login credentials: so log in
• now you have access to all your ! MsOneDrive files
• you can map the location or pin it to Quick access or Start

Side effect

• some characters are displayed incorrectly:
  • ^0 = & (Country ^0 Folk.m3u)
  • ^1 = % (e.g. Vol. 1 100^1 Acid Jazz^J Vol. 1)
  • ^J = , (e.g. 100^1 Acid Jazz^J Vol. 1)
  • …
• you can try to correct them, but you'll see they re-appear in the same way

Connect to OneDrive using WinSCP

https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_microsoft_onedrive

Suspend / Resume OneDrive

OneDrive can be very expensive on bandwidth, so it's good to suspend it when you'll watch movies online.

Using the PsSuspend PsTool

Download & unpack the !PsTools.

Then simply issue pssuspend <process name> and the process is suspended. For OneDrive, the process name is onedrive (sometimes, life can be simple).

<span style='font-size: 1em;'>C:\Users>e:\tools\pstools\pssuspend onedrive
</span>
PsSuspend v1.07 - Process Suspender
Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals

Process onedrive suspended.

Resuming is done by simply adding the -r switch:

C:\Users>e:\tools\pstools\pssuspend -r onedrive

PsSuspend v1.07 - Process Suspender
Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals

Process onedrive resumed.

Toggle command to suspend/resume OneDrive

C:\tools\PsTools\PsList -d onedrive|find/i "suspend" && C:\tools\PsTools\PsSuspend -r onedrive || C:\tools\PsTools\PsSuspend onedrive

Using the /shutdown switch of the OneDrive executable

C:\Users>%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe /shutdown

And you launch your MsOneDrive sync again by simply calling the OneDrive executable without switches:

C:\Users>%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe

Reset OneDrive

Issue the following command:

%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset

Correct OneDrive statuses

What I mean, is: white circles with green check => green circles with white check:

• move items that refuse the 'always keep on this device' setting to a non OneDrive location, wait for OneDrive to be in sync again, then move the items back
• look for empty folders and remove them

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