Windows 10: Documents and Pictures on This PC are showing the OneDrive folders

Hello. I am new to the forums and I just bought a brand new Lenovo G51 laptop less than a week ago. It is a nice computer and the only problem I have with it is that when I signed in to OneDrive it shows under "This PC" the Documents, Pictures folders from OneDrive instead of the folders from the %userprofile% location. I have set up under Auto Save in OneDrive settings for This PC only but it still shows the OneDrive folders. Is there any way to fix the problem?

I've taken a screenshot to show what I'm talking about.





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Help with location of user folders when Onedrive and Dropbox are being used.

When I recently did a clean install of Win10 on my wife's computer, it put a number of folders in her Onedrive folder (without asking!). She has an outlook.com email account. This was quite fortunate in a way because one of the folders was her Desktop. This
helped in the clean install. She logs into her computer using a local log-in.

My question relates to Onedrive, Dropbox, This PC and User-gerry for documents, pictures etc

What I find, is that there are folders for documents and pictures, in Dropbox, Onedrive and in This PC. There are no such folders under users-gerry, but Dropbox and Onedrive are there.

For example:

Onedrive

- Documents

- Pictures

- Desktop

- others

Dropbox

- Documents

- Pictures

- others

This PC

- Document

- Pictures

- others

Users-->Gerry

- Dropbox

- Onedrive

- others, but no separate documents or pictures folders

I tried changing the name of one file in Dropbox Documents, but that change did not show up in Onedrive or the This PC folder. I could do some more testing, but it seemed folders are not synchronized.

The above resulted from doing a clean install to a new drive, then copying the key folders over from old Win 10 drive that I put in an external enclosure.

What I am looking for, is the proper locations for documents & pictures. Should I create those folders in user-gerry, then copy all the files to those. Then delete them in This PC, Dropbox and Onedrive and let them resync? Or what is best plan?

Thanks for any help

* Moved from Windows 7

 

Documents folder missing under "This PC" Windows 10

The regular Documents folder is redirected to OneDrive's Documents folder if you've selected the option "OneDrive" instead of "This PC Only" in the Documents and Pictures settings in OneDrive.

To cancel the redirection:

Right-click OneDrive icon in the Notification area, and click Settings. In the "Auto save" tab, select "This PC only" for Documents and/or Pictures.

 

The only way I've found to fix the problem for me was to disable OneDrive then Uninstall it. The data I need when on other computers is best kept on USB Thumb/Flash drives.