Unlinking and relinking One Drive starts everything downloading to my laptop I can't stop it - is there a way round this?

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Unlinking and relinking One Drive starts everything downloading to my laptop I can't stop it - is there a way round this?

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I had to unlink and relink my laptop to OneDrive to resolve an issue where it was stuck in processing changes. But now, it's trying to download nearly 2TB of stuff online to my laptop that has 55gb available.

You can't choose what folders as it says "Some of the items you tried to stop syncing aren't in OneDrive yet, Please wait for them to finish uploading and fix any sync problems and then try making changes again later".

So a) I can't stop things but B) they are already on OneDrive just not on my laptop so why is it saying they are uploading.

This is literally the most stupid situation ever

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EmilyS726 266.1K Independent Advisor

Hello,

Can you get to your Onedrive app settings and turn on OnDemand, this will make sure nothing is downloaded from cloud to PC. Files on your PC will be typically just a link file.

This is how you can turn on OnDemand https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/save...

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Hiya, thanks for the reply. It seemed to work, still took an age to create the links but at least it didn't download actual files.

That said, it did still download about 35GB - not sure why but maybe it was because the files were already being processed as I switched on OnDemand. There may be a way round that by pausing the sync, turning on OnDemand, then unpausing but I'm not going to go messing around now things seem resolved.

Thanks again!