Windows 10: 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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Problem with location of Pictures library after making pictures available on OneDrive

Thanks Rhina

I did what you suggested but it ended up making OneDrive the Pictures library. This may have something to do with the way i originally moved the Pictures folders to OneDrive. I probably should explain:

Because there already was a (fairly empty) Pictures folder under OneDrive (automatically set up I think when transferring a few Ipad photos to PC via OneDrive) I had moved the top level Pictures folders into D/users/myname/OneDrive rather than moving
the Pictures folder itself. This was probably a bit stupid but I subsequently moved the top level Pictures folders into that pre-existing Pictures folder on OneDrive and that's how we got to where we are today.

To continue after that diversion. Following the restore you suggested, the pictures folder under Libraries was still wrong but it looked a lot better ie it was no longer offering me a choice of locations for Pictures folders and, instead was just showing
me all the top level folders for what it (wrongly) thought was the Pictures folder. But it was still not appearing directly under This PC.

My next step was to go into Properties option for Libraries/Pictures. Here I simply added the correct location D/users/myname/OneDrive/pictures and deleted the location D/users/myname/OneDrive which at that time was the current location.

So, on the Positive side:

• Libraries/Pictures now shows what I would expect ie my top level Pictures folders

But, on the negative side:

• Pictures still does not appear under This PC, unlike Documents, Videos, Music etc
• in the Photos app, if I go to Folders option, it shows the folder as OneDrive, not OneDrive/Pictures even though, if i go into "choose where to look" it is correctly showing OneDrive/Pictures as the location. Obviously i can still get to the photos I need
  but it's an extra unnecessary step
  

That's where i am currently.

 

One drive syncing Documents, Pictures and Desktop automatically

To disabling OneDrive sync, do the following:

Note: Before proceeding, copy the files in those special folders to another folder or external drive. Please don’t copy them anywhere under Desktop/Documents/Pictures. This is because disabling OneDrive backup for a folder erases the local copies of the files. Copying them to a different location beforehand will ensure that you don’t need to download them again from the OneDrive cloud.

1. Right-click the OneDrive icon in the Notification area and click Settings.
   
2. Select the Backup tab, and click Manage Backup
   
3. In the Manage folder backup dialog, click on the Stop backup link under the special folder (Desktop, Documents, or Pictures)
   
4. Click Stop backup in the confirmation dialog that appears.
   
5. Repeat the step for each shell folder you want to revert to the original location.
   

See also: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...onedrive-d61a7930-a6fb-4b95-b28a-6552e77c3057

 

Documents,Pictures,Desktop file location connected to one drive

Hello i am wondering if i get some incite on my issues, firstly i do not use onedrive always preferred other cloud services. My location of Documents,Pictures,Desktop are c/user/name/onedrive from going into my user folder i see a folder called onedrive
inside including Documents,Pictures,Desktop i want to know if i can move them. When going to properties location move and restore default it wants to put it back to C/User/name but when i do this it says that the file you are trying to move from c/user/name/onedrive
to c/user/name is in the same location.

I Do not have onedrive on my pc so thinking if its a issue and have to worry about it as it cant sync my files to the cloud if it is not installed . Wanting to know if there is a easy way to change this.

Note i did this for Documents,Pictures,Desktop and using this method for desktop worked and has changed just not for Documents,Pictures

Overall it causes no issues to my pc just my OCD is going though the roof.

This never used to be a issue i think it changed as i had to install more office programs for work and also installed onedrive after uninstalling it again i noticed this.

Any help if there is a easy fix to this or it is something i do not need to worry about.

Thanks