

It should not say that you are not signed in. It should say “OneDrive up to date”, although if you have just made changes or just switched on the computer, it might not yet have finished syncing. To see the status of OneDrive go to the right side of the taskbar, click the little up arrow to show the tray of notification icons, and let the mouse hover over the OneDrive cloud icon.

The OneDrive app might be running on the computer, but it cannot log in. OneDrive on the computer has to sign in with OneDrive online so that the two can be kept in sync. Hopefully, they will enable you to get OneDrive up and running again. It works perfectly well for most people, but a small number of people have problems with it and some of those problems are addressed here. Windows 7 users can join in the fun by installing the OneDrive app from the website too. The OneDrive folder on the disk drive in Windows 8 and 10, is a mirror image of everything stored online. Here are some solutions to common problems.Īlthough OneDrive is a remote online facility, it has a local offline component too. OneDrive is Microsoft’s online storage, a drive in the cloud where you can put your files for safe keeping or to enable them to be accessed from other computers and devices.
