Separating Documents from OneDrive

Yes, that's actually true when you backup your PC Documents folder with OneDrive. If you really want to stop OneDrive from syncing your files (Desktop, Documents, and Pictures folder) then Unlink your account from OneDrive settings but before doing that, make sure to enable the option "Always keep on this device" for all your files:

• Open the Documents folder.
• Select all files and folders in it (or press Ctrl + A in your keyboard)
• Hover your mouse in any of these selected files, right-click and select "Always keep on this device"
• Wait until the status icons for all selected files turn from white to green icons.
• Do the same steps for your files in Desktop and Pictures folder, if they are also synced on OneDrive.

To unlink OneDrive from your PC:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/36246-link-...

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Thanks for the help.

Users/my name\Documents seems to be a mirror of what is in OneDrive, I thought that whatever I put in my PC Documents locations was mirrored in OneDrive?

How exactly do i disable syncing in OneDrive, the Pause Sync box?

Hi, I'm Benedict, an Independent Advisor. I'm here to help you.

Microsoft OneDrive has its own Documents folder and this is different from your local or user Documents folder. Once backup is enabled, OneDrive will change the location of your user Documents folder to OneDrive's Documents folder's location and also your local files in the Documents folder will be moved and synced to OneDrive. Once you stop the back up, your local Documents folder's location will be reverted to the default location which is C:\Users<username>\Documents. You can confirm this by right-clicking the Documents folder in the left pane of File explorer under the This PC folder (not the OneDrive folder), select Properties, and click the Location tab. But when you open your user Documents folder after stopping OneDrive backup, you will only see the shortcut "Where are my files" and when you double click it, OneDrive Documents folder will be opened. Now, you have to manually move or copy your files from OneDrive Documents folder to your local or user Documents folder. This is explained more here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/back....

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Benedict P.

Step 1 - If you have a recent version of Microsoft Office:

Microsoft Office saves files to OneDrive by default, but you can change that.

Open any Office app and go to File > Options  > Save > Save documents

Step 2:

This part is self-explanatory.

Open the OneDrive app and either 1) disable syncing; or 2) if you wish to maintain syncing, make sure that you are not syncing any folders that contain documents.

The correct place to store all your documents is: C:\Users<your user account>\Documents   That's where Windows anticipates your files will be stored, so that folder is never touched during updates.