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I used to link OneDrive to my NAS (FreeNAS), which as attached as a network drive. OneDrive was always in sync and about 350GB of data was stored there. Now I have a new PC and wanted to continue the sync, so decided to do the same trick as last time (with symbolic links). It said processing changes and left it overnight. When I looked in the morning and needed some files, I saw that a lot of folders on the NAS were empty. I immediately quit OneDrive and saw that my 350GB NAS was now 70GB. Looking at OneDrive on the website, the folders are exactly the same, a lot smaller than the 350GB, and recycle bin is empty. There's also no recycle bin in FreeNAS enabled, which is only just active now I discovered this.

 

Quite bummed that a lot of data is gone, mainly a lot of old school stuff (about 90GB) and an old backup for my PC in 2019 which isn't that bad, and most I have still in my email as attachments.

I've left a support ticket at the OneDrive website. Could there be any way I could get that data back in OneDrive?

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Just now, Papercut Captain said:

If the files are not in the OneDrive trash bin, you could try to rollback all the changes.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/restore-your-onedrive-fa231298-759d-41cf-bcd0-25ac53eb8a15

Saw that as well, rolling back doesn't bring anything back unfortunately.

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