How to stop onedrive from backing up personal folders, i turned it off in the settings

Question

hi all, i have followed these steps to turn off one drive backup:

Open OneDrive on your computer and click on the "Settings" icon in the taskbar.

Click on the "Backup" tab.

Under "Folders to back up," click on "Manage backup."

Deselect the checkbox next to "Desktop."

Click "OK" to save your changes.

but out of no where it comes back on and syncs the personal folders "desktop, download and pictures folder" to one drive

the issue is multiple people use the same onedrive and all their data is mixed up and one computers personal folders is now being seen by all the other computers that use the same onedrive

this users onedrive is windows 11 and the other machines are windows 10

for now i am forced to sign out of the shared onedrive and then giving access to only particular folders that are needed to a seperate one drive

but why with windows 11 it keeps turning on backup without us prompting it or turning it on

thanks.

Answer 1

There doesn't appear to be any way to stop the computer from wanting to backup to OneDrive so I am forced to manually do backups to my external hard drive. I don't want my files in the cloud and I am not giving Microsoft permission to have them. This is really frustrating the hell out of me. What a piece of junk they've come up with.

Answer 2

There is no OneDrive "Settings" icon in the taskbar.

Answer 3

im getting realy frustrated about this there is nothing in settings about turning this of i want this fing turned of damit

Answer 4

Seems like a lot of people are having similar issues and only makes sense to me that Microsoft wants everyone (even if they do not want to) to back up to OneDrive. My issue is, and I am sure I am not the only one, have a 1TB SSD and do not want to upgrade at this point and my Documents that I have had for several years is 350GB in size. So, on my desktop the Backup, no matter how many times I unlink, uninstall, re-install, delete the cache, reset the application, turn off backup to my Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Music, Video, every time I reboot the backup is back on and I see only half the icons on my desktop.

I think my main issue is I like to dictate where my folders reside, so I purposely move the location in the properties of the containers to a folder I dictate on OneDrive outside of my C Drive to a much larger hard drive. So, they no longer appear in my User profile on the C Drive. Whenever I reboot, they re-appear in my user profile and then OneDrive wants to back them up again. Then I have to disable the backup, wait for a few minutes and use the properties to move the folders again.

What I am experimenting with now is after I relocate the folders out of my User profile on the C Drive, I will create the exact named folders without anything in them in my user profile and see what transpires from that. I am sure my unorthodox relocation of the folders to OneDrive is causing my OneDrive to automatically want to switch on the backup in OneDrive on every boot. On my laptop without redirecting the folders OneDrive basically turns off the backup and stays off.

Just putting this out there in case someone else see the same scenario. I am not even sure this would pertain to your exact situation.

Thanks,

netguru

Answer 5

I have been trying to remove one drive from this computer. Somehow OneDrive has flooded my pictures with hundreds of graphic images and i can't find some of my photos although they appear when I scroll through the stored images. I would prefer to get rid of One Drive and if I lost pictures, so be it. On both Windows 11 and Windoes 10 laptops I do not have an One Drive icon on the task bar. Apparently they are hidden and i can't find then to either tell one Drive to skip any photos or just don't do anything.

Frustrating...

Oh, when this is solved can someone give me instructions ho how to stop Bing and Edge from popping up?

John