how to stop saving anything to OneDrive

Hi, I'm Robinson, and I’m happy to help you today.

I know how frustrating this may be for you but I'll do my very best to help you.

To change the default save location from OneDrive to your local disk in Windows 10, you need to do the following:

1-Click on Start then click on Settings

2-Click on System then click on Storage

3-Under "Save location", set all drop-down lists to "This PC"

After this change, all files should be saved locally in the file explorer.

Thank you for the advice, but...I have already performed those steps a few times.

Hi, I'm Robinson, and I’m happy to help you today.
I know how frustrating this may be for you but I'll do my very best to help you.

To change the default save location from OneDrive to your local disk in Windows 10, you need to do the following:
1-Click on Start then click on Settings
2-Click on System then click on Storage
3-Under "Save location", set all drop-down lists to "This PC"

After this change, all files should be saved locally in the file explorer.

Thank you, Robinson, my 'system' displays are a bit different from those above. There is no 'Save Location' option but there is an option to 'change where new content is saved', that shows the list but all items are set to save to: 'Windows (C:)'. Do you advise I change that to 'save to: This PC'? Is that not the same as Windows (C:)?

I'm guessing that I have actually turned off OneDrive, because it only appears anywhere on this PC in the File Explorer Navigation Pane and of course in the address bar when I attempt to access any OneDrive file.

I may have turned off/deleted OneDrive. I was able to 'pause' syncing(if that is the cause of items still being saved to it). Edge still saves to it.

My concern is all my pictures are saved in OneDrive and no matter what I try I will loose them. I really save little else, only websites I see and like.

My main desire is to simply get File Explorer back to what it was after the Windows 10

upgrade of 2020. In the Navigation Pane I find the OneDrive files also listed under Quick Access, This Pc, Libraries as well as OneDrive.

I suspect I inadvertently did that when trying to move files OUT of OneDrive INTO This PC.

Robinson, I completely understand if you simply give up on me as hopeless.

I told you I was a PC Dummy, you just didn't know how dumb I am. Sorry. klaro90

You don't need to worry about losing the files saved in the OneDrive if you unlink or uninstall the OneDrive from your computer all files remain saved on the OneDrive site: https://onedrive.live.com/

Please check on this link the solution "4. Uninstall OneDrive" and the "Bonus: Restore the file explorer default location".

https://www.guidingtech.com/stop-windows-10-fro...

After that, the file explorer should work normally like was before the OneDrive, and if you miss any file you just need to access https://onedrive.live.com/ and download the file.

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