Windows 10: Help! OneDrive has taken over my laptop!

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    Help! OneDrive has taken over my laptop!


    It feels like OneDrive has taken over my laptop. I started getting messages about OneDrive being full. Then large red circles with crosses appeared throughout File Explorer which is very disconcerting. Now, I've tried to save a file to a folder I don't access very often, and it was missing from where it had been residing for years. I did a search and it came up in a folder called OneDrive. I thought OneDrive was cloud storage. So is the OneDrive folder on some distant server, or actually on my PC? Why has OneDrive deleted or moved a folder? How can I undelete this folder, and any others I

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