Windows 10: Darned green check marks adjacent to new saved documents

I've been reading the issues related to those green check marks in front of saved documents but solutions suggested are not working for me, and now I can't print a financial document - just view - and there is no issue with my printer connectivity because I can print a test page via Windows and it prints fine. I could care less about the "cloud" for saving documents - I want to save documents ONLY to my PC which I back up manually.


How do I stop getting documents sent to the crazy "cloud" and just to my personal files on my PC ? Microsoft shouldn't be taking control of where I keep my files. I tried right clicking on the document to try to save it to my recent files list and I don't get that option on the list provided. Can't get rid of the green arrows and can't print important documents.


How do I fix this ???????

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Documents and pictures... green check mark?

So I recently got a new computer with windows 10, and I am still getting used to it.

I was looking for my documents and pictures folders...

But when I hit the dropdown for "This PC" I see a "Documents" and "Pictures" but they have green check marks next to them (I think they have something to do with the cloud?) What are these?

Apparently my real documents and pictures folders are under the "Libraries" dropdown... Because the green check mark documents and pictures are empty.

Is there any way to connect these two? I don't really understand this

 

Documents and pictures... green check mark?

Thank you for the helpful reply, but when I opened up "This PC" my documents and pictures under "This PC" are the ones with green check marks not my original files and folders that I am looking for :/ I was hoping I could change this to make the "Documents"
and "Pictures" under "This PC" my originals.. not one drive documents and pictures

The only place I can find my original documents and pictures is under "Libraries" which is hard to get to because it doesn't even show up on the list under quick access nor this PC.

Also, when I go to properties in the documents and pictures folders there is no "location" tab to change the file path available... So I am not sure how to get my originals back to "This PC"

 

Documents and pictures... green check mark?

OneDrive will create these folder by default when signing in to OneDrive.

Any folder & files under the OneDrive folder will be synced to the MS Cloud (OneDrive) so you can access these files and folders from whenever you are when you sign in to the following website.

Think of it this way,

The files and folders that are saved in OneDrive are saved in 2 places, there is a copy saved on your local PC and another copy saved online.

Now the benefit to this is if your PC was to take a turn for the worse and your files are unrecoverable, you have a backup of them on the Microsoft OneDrive that you can access here --> Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online.

The other benefit is that if you were to travel, for example, and you need to access these files, you can sign in from another PC or smartphone and download your files that you need.

Another benefit is that if you work from multiple devices you can keep your documents saved in OneDrive so whichever device you make any changes to these files, they will always be up-to-date with your other devices.

Now, back to your issue. The Documents and more folders that you are seeing with the green check mark are not your original documents folders that you are familiar with.

Try opening up 'This PC' and on the left you may be presented with a list of places. If you look for 'This PC' on the left hand side, under that you should see a list with Desktop, Documents, Downloads etc. If you click on documents there for example you
should be able to find your original files and folders.

Let me know if you have anymore questions or if this isn't what you were looking for.

Thank you.