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I recently got a new laptop and I'm not sure how windows 11 works. I noticed that my documents folder was just my OneDrive, which i don't want.
When i tried to redirect it to the main storage, i get:
I'm not sure how to get it to work.
I don't want to unlink my onedrive completely because i use it often to transfer files.
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Hi. I'm Brian and I will do my best to help you.
Go into the Settings on OneDrive, select the Backup tab and uncheck Documents (and Desktop and Pictures if you wish) and those folders should get moved back to their position under C:\Users<youraccount>, unless you've manually created folders of the same name, which is not the correct approach.
Nothing in their support documents even comes close to matching their intructions
The instructions I had for successfully getting rid of it on Windows 10 DO NOT work on Windows 11
If anything, it has screwed up Windows 11 explorer.
Microsoft -- you need to fix this and provide free telephone support for those of us who DO NOT WANT ONEDRIVE
Me too. Multiple "Documents" folders in the navigation pane. Everything tries to save to OneDrive and fails becaue I have unlinked the PC from OneDrive. It shouldn't even show them oin the navigation pane, let alone always try to save to OneDrive. And the "local" one should now point to my local folders, but it points to OneDrive.
Rthere are huge problems with the OneDrive implementation which make navigation confusing and fails to remove duplication when Onedrive is disabled.
I am not sure of the reason, but the, "Always keep on this device" option is not included in the right-click drop down menu of any of my files, programs or documents. This showed up after the last big Windows 11 Cumulative update during the first week of April.
Not sure where it went, as it was there before. Also when I try to email a single .pdf or Word document it sends a link to my windows explorer page instead. This link is fully functional and allows the receiver to search all of my files. I have never encountered this problem. It seems no one else has either. Short of a new computer, I am at a loss.
There is no location tab in Windows 11.
