Macrium Service prevents OneDrive.exe client from updating itself

I noticed right after the 1809 17763.134 update, and when starting OneDrive the first time, it attempted to update it's client to the latest version - 18.192.0920.0015. Afterwards when checking the version I noticed it hadn't been updated. It's failed each time because apparently the Macrium Service has a file lock on the OneDrive.exe.

I found this out when I stopped OneDrive and attempted to move the new file myself:



So each time OneDrive is started up, it again tries to update itself by creating yet another platform directory for that version but with an appended '_N'.



Culling this log:

Install-PerUser_2018-11-16_001247_229c-a18.log found in:

C:\Users\<Usernamer>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\Setup\logs

I noticed it fails to copy this newest version of OneDrive.exe to the root folder:
C:\Users\<Usernamer>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive


Ending with this error:
!ERROR! (0x80070020) MoveClientExecutablesToInstallRoot() - OneDrive.exe failed!


My temporary solution was to stop both OneDrive and the 'Macrium Service', then copy the ...\OneDrive\18.192.0920.0015\OneDrive.exe manually to the root folder, then change all the appropriate Registry values found under:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\OneDrive

I suspect if I stop the Macrium Service before hand, the normal update process will succeed, something I plan to test on another machine that hasn't yet attempted the update.

I'd be curious to hear if anyone else has seen this latest OneDrive.exe update, 18.192.0920.0015, not take.

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Update: So I noticed that my other 1809 17763.134 machine tried on it's own last night to update OneDrive.exe to 18.192.0920.0015 and also failed.

So just now, I stopped it's Macrium Service, then started up OneDrive which then went into it's update sequence again by creating this 18.192.0920.0015_1 folder, but the good news this time is that it successfully installed 18.192.0920.0015.

If you stop Onedrive and try to either rename, overwrite, or delete:

C:\Users\<Usernamer>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe

You'll get this message about the Macrium Service having the file open.

FWIW the first machine was running MR v7.2.3858 and the second, MR v7.2.3825

I thought it was me. This is why I was losing disk space.

reddice said:

I thought it was me. This is why I was losing disk space.

After successful update it will clean after itself. Thanks @Farvatten to bring this to our attention. Have to update manually (Insiders version)

I removed OneDrive and stopped using it. Always hated how slow and buggy it was. Macrium is more important anyway because it actually works.

reddice said:

I removed OneDrive and stopped using it. Always hated how slow and buggy it was. Macrium is more important anyway because it actually works.

I'll keep them both. Like them both.

@Farvatten

Excellent find! Thank you. This has been bugging me for over a week. Finally fixed.