Windows 10: Desktop, Documents and Pictures all located inside OneDrive. How to undo this?

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    Desktop, Documents and Pictures all located inside OneDrive. How to undo this?


    I initially setup my computer so that everything backed up onto OneDrive, however, the more I used OneDrive, the more I realised that it is not setup for managing large amounts of files like this. I now want to uncouple my Desktop, Documents and Pictures from OneDrive, however I don't know how to do this. I tried uninstalling OneDrive, but now I have two OneDrive folders and one of them is not managed by my account. I suspect it might be to do with the fact that I setup my computer account using a different email address to the current one that I use. The problem is that I don't know how to un

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