Apologies if this is discussed somewhere else, I’ve trawelled as best as I can but nothing specific to this issue.

I am currently using Onedrive for photo backup, a collection of 50k+ photos. I’m now in the process of tagging and adding keywords to them to build a database that is easier to search from desktop or phone of people or events etc.

However I am becoming increasingly annoyed by onedrive undoing any of the keywords I am adding in batch.

I can organise and sort a few hundred of these in a day with tags, faces etc using third party apps. These changes then upload to onedrive, but within 5 minutes onedrive will resync and download the previous file versions, sans keywords. It isn’t every file, isn’t every folder just a random selection that will forever remain in this loop. I can wait for all syncing to complete then manually go into that file via explorer, re-apply tags and then watch as onedrive waits 30 seconds and redownloads that file once again without the tag data. The only fix I have found is to drag the file away from onedrive so the file is “Deleted” from the server, apply the changes offline and the re-upload the file as a whole new file. It seems that the issue also follows if I make and edit an offline file version to edit and then upload as Onedrive is now, once again taking any new changes and overriding them with the old file version.

All files are synced for offline use in onedrive so appear on my hard drive for easy access on my main PC.

Anyone know what the issue might be? I’ve tried rebuilding the Folder, relinking my account and clearing the cache.

​Apologies if this is discussed somewhere else, I’ve trawelled as best as I can but nothing specific to this issue. I am currently using Onedrive for photo backup, a collection of 50k+ photos. I’m now in the process of tagging and adding keywords to them to build a database that is easier to search from desktop or phone of people or events etc. However I am becoming increasingly annoyed by onedrive undoing any of the keywords I am adding in batch. I can organise and sort a few hundred of these in a day with tags, faces etc using third party apps. These changes then upload to onedrive, but within 5 minutes onedrive will resync and download the previous file versions, sans keywords. It isn’t every file, isn’t every folder just a random selection that will forever remain in this loop. I can wait for all syncing to complete then manually go into that file via explorer, re-apply tags and then watch as onedrive waits 30 seconds and redownloads that file once again without the tag data. The only fix I have found is to drag the file away from onedrive so the file is “Deleted” from the server, apply the changes offline and the re-upload the file as a whole new file. It seems that the issue also follows if I make and edit an offline file version to edit and then upload as Onedrive is now, once again taking any new changes and overriding them with the old file version. All files are synced for offline use in onedrive so appear on my hard drive for easy access on my main PC. Anyone know what the issue might be? I’ve tried rebuilding the Folder, relinking my account and clearing the cache.  Read More

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