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I turned off and uninstalled Onedrive last year. This week, thousands of files uploaded without my permission and now it's over capacity. I had no knowledge this was even happening. I'm furious. (I assume it had something to do with the latest Windows update?)
I don't have the app installed. Is there a way to turn off Onedrive without re-installing the app? Regardless, how do I ensure that this never happens again?
A Microsoft file hosting and synchronization service.
Please type regedit in the search on the taskbar to launch registry editor, and go to this path, then take a screenshot and share in your reply.
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
Here it is. BTW, when I go directly to the C:\users(myname)\OneDrive folder, there is barely anything there (only about 400 bytes worth of stuff). When I stopped using OneDrive, I moved everything of the OneDrive folder on my PC, and deleted anything that was in the cloud.
So I don't even understand how all of my files are uploading to the cloud version of OneDrive.
thanks for the screenshot.
Your documents folder is still syncing to OneDrive right now -believe it or not, it can work without OneDrive app since OneDrive settings is now part of Windows settings too.
So, in that registry page, right click on "Personal", modify, change value data to:
%USERPROFILE%\Documents
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Restart the computer after that. Review everything inside the OneDrive folder again, move anything you need out of there. Then you can just delete the Onedrive folder entirely.
Thanks!
I actually made a new discovery -- I'm not even sure if the files clogging up OneDrive were recently uploaded from my PC. There is nothing in there newer than Jan 2025, which is around the time I stopped using OneDrive. It's almost as if the old deleted files were still in the cloud and somehow came back? is that even possible?
If you moved the files out of OneDrive after you uninstalled OneDrive, that's entirely possible.
I suggest you not use the Windows Standard Folders. Keep your files and folders at C:\Users\username\YourFolders. That location bypasses OneDrive completely.
Why I Avoid Windows Standard Folders
Also, you can keep your files on a separate data partition.