Here is background information in case it is relevant. I have a Dell Inspiron desktop purchased in about 2016. About 3 weeks ago I replaced the 1TB SATA drive with a 2TB SSD and did a clean install of Windows 10. I am using OneDrive to backup all my files. After the clean install I connected the old drive in a Startech drive dock and copied all the files from the OneDrive folder on that drive to the OneDrive folder on the new drive to avoid the delay of having OneDrive download them from the cloud and because I didn’t want to exceed my 1TB monthly Comcast Internet bandwidth before charging me a penalty. Search seemed to be working fine. A few days ago I noticed that Properties on the C:\ drive said I was using about 230 GB but I know I have about 630 GB of files in OneDrive. I did a web search and found that “Files On-Demand – Save space and download files as you use them” was checked in OneDrive settings. I unchecked it and over the next two days OneDrive downloaded the remaining files (sad because I had ALREADY copied those files from the old drive so I guess OneDrive removed some and replaced them with a link to the cloud). Now all the folders in OneDrive have a green check mark which I guess indicates the folders and contents are on my hard drive AND in the cloud. That was a few days ago. I think it was yesterday that I noticed when I did a search in OneDrive\Documents with Windows Explorer “filename:logitech” (for example) I got “No items match your search”. But I have verified the files are there in the OneDrive folder. Strangely, if I do the same search in C:\ it DOES find 32 files and folders in various locations (some in Program Files) and eight files contained in C:\users\Don\OneDrive.
I ran the Windows Search Repair but still not working. I think resetting OneDrive is a possibility but I am afraid if I do this, the activity between the computer and the MS cloud to rebuild OneDrive might cause enough traffic to exceed my Comcast monthly budget. I am at 477GB for March already. I don’t think it should cause files to get copied, just pointers but I’m paranoid about it. Any ideas?
BTW, when I did the clean install, the installer called the new user folder “donan”, which is part of my MS account, which I signed in with. I wanted it to be “Don” and I used a procedure someone here gave me to change it, which included making a symbolic link from c:\users\donan to c:\users\Don. More background info in case needed.
Thanks,
Don
