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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.
Try disabling OneDrive by going to the settings and choosing "Quit OneDrive." Then relocate the Documents folder so it's in the right place (c:\users[yourid]\documents. Then re-enable OneDrive and choose a custom location for it during that process. This is how I fixed the problem. After that, I could relocate my Documents folder to a different drive and it was no longer under the OneDrive folder.
Edit: The key is to "Unlink this PC." Then you can relocate Documents, Pictures, etc. Then go ahead and relink OneDrive. In my case, I put OneDrive on a separate internal drive instead of the system drive, and it's now well-behaved. Quite why MS decided to make this so difficult is a mystery. One of those bogus "user studies," no doubt. (See any Panos Panay presentation for a lesson in how not to upgrade a user interface.)
I concur! There is no OneDrive under Settings. And cannot change path on location tab because the onedrive documents folder is within the other documents folder so it errors out. What to try now?
That definitely does not work, nor do any of these folders move out of OneDrive. Any attempt to change the location (via Properties) also fails with an error.
Unfortunately, this response does not tell us where to find "the Settings on OneDrive." I went to "Settings" but there is no "OneDrive" menu item from there. So where do we find this????? I must say, it is VERY, VERY frustrating to see how hard Microsoft is working to break our will and get all of our documents in their cloud.
