My onedrive wont let me download files

If you turn on Storage Sense, OneDrive will set an online-only view for any files you haven't accessed in the past 30 days. This will stop you from accessing certain files if you don't have an internet connection. Here is how you can do it:. Being locked out of OneDrive is frustrating, without a doubt.

The solutions we have put together in this article will walk you through fixing OneDrive so that you can access your important files within minutes. Navigate and control your files with ease thanks to these OneDrive Windows shortcuts. Matthew's passions lead him to become a technical writer and blogger. Having a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, he enjoys using his technical knowledge to write informative and useful content.

If enough users complain, a subsequent update brings the feature back — like the Start Button in Windows 8. My recent one-on-one with OneDrive just added another hour to that tally. Fortunately, I persisted in finding a better way, or I would have wasted even more time tediously downloading one file at a time. The lesson in this for me and for you is to look for buttons and links that make it easy to download online content. If you search and come up empty, research the problem.

And if all else fails, complain about it. Tell developers how you work and insist they give you the tools that simplify IT for you. Thanks for the post. Unbelievably stupid design. I wish I could use your workaround. Unfortunately for me our enterprise version has disabled the Open in Explorer control.

Currently downloading files one by one. Thanks microsoft, where can I send the bill for hours wasted? It says I am signed in through connected devices as well as user information. I have included these images, if it helps. On the my account tab, through Microsoft Word, I am signed in with my school account. But the error occurs when I try saving my information to OneDrive, and tries to make me sign in again.

In order to protect your personal private information, I will cover it for you. Thanks for your understanding. I must delete some items from One Drive. When I go to delete it will not allow me to delete.

I don't recommend turning SmartScreen off completely because it is helpful in preventing you from downloading a malicious file or app, but you can disable it in Microsoft's Edge browser if you want to override its protection and go ahead and download a file it doesn't recognize.

You can disable SmartScreen in the Windows Defender Security Center app in total or just for Edge, but for the latter it's faster to do so right within Edge itself, particularly if you are already using Edge. Here's how to toggle SmartScreen off and on in Edge:. With SmartScreen off, you are on your own about which files to download in Edge, but I would urge you to go back and toggle SmartScreen on when you have finished downloading your file.