Removing onedrive

[x Princess Leliana x]

At my witts end. Google is not helping.

 

I've uninstalled the entire program. I selected NO to onedrive when installing windows. And still. All my stuff. Is in c/users/name/ONEDRIVE/etc

 

I dont WANT anything in these god awful one drive folders. I just want it to be c/users/name/documents. How do I do this, I cant move the folder out, I cant do anything, do I have to reinstall windows entirely? Its not like this on my old pc. My files are my files. No onedrive.

[x Princess Leliana x]

Following advice found elsewhere, i reinstalled onedrive, signed in, and hit "Unlink this pc". This signed me out and said it was done. All my folders are STILL IN ONEDRIVE. 

[x Princess Leliana x]

tried manually moving the folders outside of onedrive, now i get "Location not available!" whenever clicking documents pictures, etc.

[x Princess Leliana x]

Managed to get it done. For others:

Download and log into one drive. Go into settings. Go to backup. Click manage backup, it will show which folders are backed up. If any of them are not highlighted, highlight then, then restart onedrive. 

Go back into backups, and turn all off, youll know you did it right as itll have a "you wont be backing up, choose where to put your folders", hit "ONLY ON MY PC".

 

Once youve done that for all, verify that its not in there by going into the folder and seeing if it says c:users:name:ONEDRIVE:documents. If it doesnt say onedrive, youre good. Go to settings, account, unlink. Then uninstall.

[Mark Kaine]

It's great you found a solution but I wonder how this happens, just don't make a ms account, no ms account, no problems!

 

 

A little visual tutorial 

 

 

Should be same on windows 11 (but 10 is better anyway!)