Windows 10: How can I stop my apps saving the data in the onedrive directory?

HelloMy system is WIN 11. Before I activated onedrive, my data were updated in D:\Documents.Then I installed onedrive on my D: drive as I want C: to have programs only. The I realized my apps were saving the data now in onedrive instead of D:\Documents which is slowly but surely getting out of date. I then decided to uninstall onedrive to keep D:\Documents as my sole repository of data. But after the uninstall I still cannot fully delete the onedrive directory and its content permission error even though I am the admin of my PC. I also realized the onedrive\Documents folder is still parti

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Windows 10 - OneDrive

Right click on the app and one of the properties has an option to not automatically start it. Uncheck, restart the computer, and it should stop. If you want to go another step further, find the OneDrive app in the start menu, right click on it and uninstall.

If that is still insufficient, there is a batch uninstaller for OneDrive available online. I can copy the code here if you need it.

 

Onedrive saving data without consent

Try these steps :

Click on the small onedrive cloud icon in your taskbar

Then click on help and settings and then again on settings.

Then in the pop up window click on the first tab (settings)

Untick the last option that says "save space and download files as you use them"

(This will start the process of downloading all your data from the cloud back to your device)

In addition to this untick the first option that says "start onedrive automatically when I sign in to windows " (this will prevent its autostart)

Once the data has finished downloading (You can verify that by looking at the folders) click on backup tab in the same popup window.

ensure that the backup is still off.

At this point please visit www.onedrive.com and compare to your system and look for any data that is still missing in your system. Download it and make a backup since we will unlink onedrive and that data which has not been download will be lost.

Once you have verified go to the Account tab on the onedrive popup window and click on unlink this pc. Confirm your choice and onedrive will be removed from your file manager (You may not be able to delete onedrive app completely from your system since it is an integrated part of onedrive but it will not longer access your files or back them up)

One additional step can be to right click on taskbar then click on taskmanager.

Click on More details at the bottom and then click on Startup tab.

Search for onedrive in the list (if it is not there you may ignore this step)

Right click on it and click on disable.

That is all please let me know if you face any issues.

 

Default save directory for Word not be User.

Jeff,

I found some screenshots that show that I also had to take some action in the System tray [the "Notification area" in Win10-speak] -

- Step 1 - SysTray, right-click on OneDrive icon, select Settings


- Step 2 - clear the checkbox for starting with Windows


Whilst my written notes do not refer to this action, I must have done it in order to have taken screenshots of doing so. And some of the trimmed-out bits of the screenshots prove that I was in a local account [not an MSAccount] when I did this.

Denis