One drive has messed up my whole PC. How do I get my files back on my PC, and switch off one drive forever. (Please dont answer a question I did not ask)?

-this Malware issue called "onedrive" has NOT been resolved for me, and I doubt anyone else, my deleted files are still deleted, my missing data is still missing, I did get a couple games to restore,, but only because the publisher had actual backups, not MALWARE labeled as a backup..

Thank you to everyone for your replies! Funnily enough, this is the first time since I posed the question, I have been able to log back in to respond as Microsoft wouldn’t let me! No surprise there.

I have never been able to resolve this issue on the PC it happened on. The ONLY way I could resolve this was by buying a new PC. When I did that, I made sure I never accepted the backup to One Drive and kept the files I wanted to keep on my hard drive and those I have always had on One Drive have kept there.

Mind you! Every. Single. Time. I save a file on my hard drive it asks me to backup to One Drive. I have to say no every single time. Even when opening a file, One Drive wants access to it.

Frankly, this is disgusting but I have not got into the habit of refusing every time and so far, so good.

Yes, One Drive is great for those files I need to access everywhere but when it comes to everything else, it is invasive and I am not impressed.

I am utterly perturbed at Microsoft OneDrive. This gentleman has posed a very concise question. I hope that it will be answered because I need the same information.

I want my computer back! I don't want Microsoft OneDrive or the affects it has on personal system, such as backing up my desktop, then making it fubar when I try to restore. I don't want an answer to this in particular; I want it gone from my computer. I don't want any of it. I want an operating system for my computer. My computer.

I will decide where, when, and how to backup my personal documents.

Similar to this? "\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents"

I don't know what happened or when, but my stuff had been buried that deep and some other things were in other locations. I found out when OD told me it couldn't sync files because the path was too long. I uninstalled the app and got everything back in order on my laptop. It had even moved files not being backed up into that folder structure. Reinstalled the app and hoping there aren't any issues. I suggest everyone ignore the pop-up when Windows starts asking if you want to backup documents and such. I did ignore it for a long time and finally decided to click though the process, thinking I was not agreeing to anything additional being backed up. It even began backing up my Desktop and I explicitly said NO.

WTH has OneDrive done to all my stuff??? It worked well for years. Today, a message popped up saying it can't sync files because the path is too long. After some investigation, I noticed OD has moved all my files DEEP into the documents folder on my E drive. Everything used to be at the root level.

Here is the path to some of my stuff. I've got to find the remainder.

"E:\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents\OneDrive\Documents"

It's going to take all my Saturday evening to figure out what the hell is going on AND decide if I want to move to a more reliable backup solution.