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If you ever find yourself needing to reinstall OneDrive, here is how you can do it easily without having to redownload the installer from the web.

Microsoft’s OneDrive online storage service has been pretty solid over the years. But as with all programs, it can occasionally hit a snag or two. Fortunately, there’s a quick and easy way to reinstall OneDrive without having to waste your bandwidth downloading the installer again. Windows 10 includes a built-in copy of the installer for OneDrive that you can launch right away without waiting for a download. In this article, we show you how to find it.

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OneDrive comes preinstalled with Windows 10. If it stops working, you can download OneDrive directly from Microsoft, but there’s an easier way.

Deep within the OS is a backup copy of the OneDriver installer. To find it, go to File Explorer > This PC and open the system drive where Windows 10 is installed (usually C:). Open the Windows folder and then open the WinSxS folder. In the search box, type onedrive then wait until the OneDriveSetup setup file appears.

To contact OneDrive for Business support from your PC or Mac, select the OneDrive icon in the notification area or menu bar, then select More Send feedback I don't like something. OneDrive for Business Admins can also view the OneDrive for Business Tech Community, Help for OneDrive for Business Admins, or contact Office 365 for business support. Download and install Microsoft OneDrive for Windows PC, Mac, iOS and Android.

Once you find it, double-click it to begin setup and you should be on your way to reinstalling OneDrive.

So, if you ever experience a problem with OneDrive not working properly, you know what to do.

Don’t forget, you can uninstall OneDrive, too. For users who don’t want to be nagged by a feature they aren’t using, you can keep it off your system by opening Start > Settings > Apps > Apps & features. Scroll down to Microsoft OneDrive, select it then click Uninstall.

These instructions apply to the desktop version of OneDrive. Microsoft also has a modern version of OneDrive app for Windows 10 you can download from the Microsoft Store. In our previous article, we showed you how to set up and use the OneDrive universal app. If there is more you would like to know about OneDrive, remember to check out our series of articles for tips and tricks, whether you use Windows, Mac, Android or iOS.

If you’re looking for general troubleshooting tips for classic and Windows Store apps, check out our previous article: How to Resolve Issues Installing Classic Desktop and Windows Store Apps in Windows 10.

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OneDrive is an Internet-based storage platform with a significant chunk of space offered for free by Microsoft to anyone with a Microsoft account. Think of it as a hard drive in the cloud, which you can share, with a few extra benefits thrown in. One of the primary benefits: OneDrive hooks into Windows 10, at least in fits and starts.

Microsoft, of course, wants you to buy more storage, but you’re under no obligation to do so.

As of this writing, OneDrive gives everyone with a Microsoft account 5GB of free storage (down from 15GB free in 2015), with 50GB for $2/month. Many Office 365 subscription levels have 1TB (1,024GB) OneDrive storage, free, for as long as you’re an Office 365 subscriber. (Back in 2015, the Office 365 subscriptions had unlimited storage, but Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away.)

Microsoft’s offers change from time to time, but the general trend is down — prices are going down, fast, and it won’t be too long before most online storage asymptotically approaches free.

The free storage is there whether you use your Microsoft account to log in to Windows, even if you never use OneDrive. In fact, if you have a Microsoft account, you’re all signed up for OneDrive.

Many people find OneDrive — at least the Windows 7, 8, and 10 versions of OneDrive — very confusing because, in essence, OneDrive keeps two sets of books. (Windows 8.1 OneDrive, by contrast is quite upfront about the whole process.) In Windows 10’s OneDrive, there’s the whole OneDrive enchilada stored on the web. But there’s a second, shadow, subset of OneDrive folders that are stored on your computer.

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Some OneDrive users have all their web-based files and folders stored on their computers, and OneDrive syncs the folders quite quickly — what you see in File Explorer is what’s stored in the cloud, and vice versa. But other OneDrive users have only some of their OneDrive folders on their computers. File Explorer shows them only this subset of folders and hides all the others that are sitting in the cloud.

If you aren’t confused, you obviously don’t understand.

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• OneDrive does what all the other cloud storage services do — it gives you a place to put your files on the Internet. You need to log in to OneDrive with your Microsoft account (or, equivalently, log in to Windows with your Microsoft account) to access your data.
• If you log in to a different Windows 10 computer using the same Microsoft account, you have access to all your OneDrive data through the web but, surprisingly, not necessarily through File Explorer. In fact, if you look only at Windows File Explorer, you might not even know what data is sitting in your OneDrive storage.

  This is one of the most confusing and dangerous parts of Windows 10. Realize that Windows File Explorer, when looking at OneDrive, is lying to you.

• File Explorer offers a very simple process for copying files from your computer into OneDrive, as long as you want to put the file in a folder that’s visible to File Explorer. File Explorer lets you move files in the other direction, from OneDrive storage onto your local hard drive, but again you must be able to see the file or folder in File Explorer before you can move it.
• You can share files or folders that are stored in OneDrive by sending or posting a link to the file or folder to whomever you want. So, for example, if you want Aunt Martha to be able to see the folder full of pictures of Little Billy, OneDrive creates a link for you that you can email to Aunt Martha. You can also specify that a file or folder is Public, so anyone can see it.
• To work with the OneDrive platform on a mobile device, you can download and install one of the OneDrive programs — OneDrive for Mac, OneDrive for iPhone, iPad, or Android. The mobile apps have many of the same problems that you find in File Explorer in Windows 10.
• In Windows 10, you don’t need to download or install a special program for OneDrive — it’s already baked into Windows.
• If you have the program installed, OneDrive syncs data among computers, phones, and/or tablets that are set up using the same Microsoft account, as soon as you connect to a network. If you change a OneDrive file on your iPad, for example, when you save it, the modified file is put in your OneDrive storage area on the Internet. From there, the new version of the file is available to all other computers with access to the file. Ditto for Android devices.