Windows 10: Documents Folder Stuck in OneDrive

THANK YOU so much for this post. I registered for a forum account just to say thanks. I've been struggling with a similar issue all morning on my Surface Book. My Documents and Pictures folder under my user were stuck as onedrive folders and I could not get them un-linked. The batch files in the article you wrote and linked to worked perfectly!! Thank you!! Utterly disgraceful that OneDrive does not have a way to easily and obviously detach itself from your folders.

 

I had a similar issue but have managed to resolve it by hacking the registry.
Open REGEDIT with Run as Administrator

Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

You see two Entries for "My Pictures" and "Personal", and if the don't say %USERPROFILE%\Pictures or %USERPROFILE%\Documents then change them to this.

You will also see entries that have "C:\Users\<username>\OneDrive\Pictures", and you can just delete them, similarly for "Documents".

Close down Regedit and restart File Explorer and it should now be resolved.