How can I find the folder on my computer that is actually on my PC hard drive and not on One Drive?

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"I am subscribed to 1 TB OneDrive to backup my computer's D and E inner drives sized 979 GB and 883 GB respectively.

After having backup-ed the drives in OneDrive, the data reappear again in the C: OneDrive folder clogging it with 507 GB and not leaving room for additional programs. Why do I have the same data twice in the computer? Please, what solution is suggested?"

The OneDrive folder by default is on the C drive unless you move it to another drive. Your files are synced to the online OneDrive from that folder. If you choose to keep it on the C drive then use the "Free up space" option suggested in the reply above.

How to change the location of the OneDrive folder: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-the-location-of-your-onedrive-folder-f386fb81-1461-40a7-be2c-712676b2c4ae

Thanks but I am trying to remove my duplicates - except I want to select the folder on my actual computer, *not* my OneDrive and yet it's masking it as OneDrive, there is no way to select my actual folder on my pc, why? I want to back it up on hard drive because I don't trust OneDrive. How can I find the folder on my computer that are actually on my PC hard drive and *not* One Drive?

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Craig Long 18,630 Reputation points

2024-08-22T21:40:37+00:00

I'm glad you found the thread at the new link.
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Craig Long 18,630 Reputation points

2024-08-22T21:45:34+00:00

Green icons are what you want.

I'm having problems figuring out what is happening with your OneDrive. It's still trying to sync.

This is about all I can do for now: Fix OneDrive sync problems
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Craig Long 18,630 Reputation points

2024-08-22T21:47:55+00:00

Go to the cloud icon on the taskbar. There, you should be able to narrow down which files cannot be synced.
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Anonymous

2024-08-22T22:17:09+00:00

Thanks Craig. Yeah, when I select "keep both files to resolve the conflict" or any of the other available options to resolve the conflicts, the conflicts just persist to no avail: In the help icon you provided in the last note, it just says to disconnect onedrive and reconnect it again, so I am then back to potentially losing additional data. I'll sign off for the night and pick this up again tomorrow, it's incredibly frustrating. I have a spare HD but it's not SSD that's 1TB and I don't even know the actual size that I need, if my free storage is 946GB out of 2TB, I might be a bit short. Thanks again for your help, Paulina
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Anonymous

2024-08-22T22:20:03+00:00

Why was I dragged into this never ending email chain, couldn’t you start your own post instead tacking onto mine? Please take me off this, you are killing my inbox.
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