# I can't see my OneDrive files

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-see-my-onedrive-files/715223>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 17, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-see-my-onedrive-files/715223 "2015-03-17T18:50:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-see-my-onedrive-files/715223/1 "2015-03-17T18:50:31Z")

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Last night, I copied five mp3 files from my laptop to OneDrive, with the intent to download them to my cell phone. After I was done, I opened the folder on my phone, but I could only see three of the files. I checked the folder from my desktop PC, and it also showed only the same three. But when I rebooted my laptop and looked again, it showed me all five of the files right where I dropped them. What’s going on here?

The laptop is on Windows 8.1, the phone is Android 4.0.4, and the desktop is a dinosaur running Win XP 2002 SP3.

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**Author:** ![Saturn\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Saturn\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saturn_Dreams)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-see-my-onedrive-files/715223/2 "2015-03-18T03:02:34Z")

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Syncing issues, typical with OneDrive. Try a manual sync.

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**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-see-my-onedrive-files/715223/3 "2015-03-19T18:38:58Z")

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That was it. Thanks, Saturn Dreams!