Windows 10: How to change default save location from OneDrive back to My Documents in Windows 11 Pro?

When I save a Word file, Excel, etc. it defaults to my OneDrive folder and I want it to save to My Documents without having to select the location. Word/Excel are trivial examples as I have many other programs that this impacts besides Office, such as analytics applications, multimedia programs, etc.I have tried the recommendations to turn off OneDrive backup and it did not change the default OneDrive folder that files were saved to. I do not want to remove OneDrive or sign out of it. I want to use it at my discretion and enable syncing for the folders I choose. I just don't want any files sa

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Not able to change default save location to OneDrive


I have a clean install of windows 10 Pro (Build 10240) 64bit.
Before clean install, my default save location was set to OneDrive. That's what I want.
After clean install, USB created from Media Creation Tool, I cannot change default save location from PC to OneDrive
I want the default set to OneDrive but the option is not available in Settings, System, Storage. Only option available is This PC.

Please help...Thanks

Doug

 

Recent (Save Files) - Change Default Settings to OneDrive

Recent (Save Files) - Change Default Settings

I am trying to save my files to OneDrive as a default. It has always worked as my default. For some reason, the default save location is now Recent. Something caused it to change. All default locations settings in Word Options, my computer and OneDrive settings are set to save to OneDrive. It appears my computer does not recognize these default settings.

Do you have any suggestions how I can have my default locations for files change back to OneDrive?

I use Windows 10. My computer is Dell XPS 8910.

See Screenshots. Screenshot with Recent highlighted shows my current default location as Recent. OneDrive should be highlighted.

Also, I reinstalled Microsoft Office.

Jerry

Jerry

 

How to actually change the default save location

The question is “Is there any way to actually change the default save location” for Documents especially? I apologize for the description but most of it is relevant to the question.

So I just recently did a clean install for the 1709 update and when through the what’s new and saw the “change where new content is saved”… not understanding why only the drive instead of an actual directory but maybe?!
Anyway, I started the normal ritual of fighting windows to get things where I would like instead of where they would like it. So I:

• Moved the OneDrive location after my initial logon forced it in the OS drive
• Turned the OneDrive autosave for everything to “This PC Only”
• Moved Documents, Downloads, etc by going to Properties -> Location
• Changed the Settings Storage Locations to the drive where things actually are
• Changed the Temp Environment Variables to a drive that is cleared during a restart
• Created junctions for things like user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook
• Installed programs then changed the save locations as needed
• Did other tedious things that I really shouldn’t need to do if there was a place that I could change the default save location

After the installs I sat down to watch football while playing a game or handling some little stuff when I see my game saves and word docs being saved to the
OneDrive Documents folder instead of the PC Documents folder like they should be. After looking through things for way to long I changed the OneDrive autosaves to “OneDrive” then back to “This PC Only”. Now
every Microsoft product is back pointing to C:/user/Documents after creating a folder that previously did not exist instead of going to the default document location located on a different drive.

Don’t get me wrong OneDrive it great I just don’t want things that I only use on my main PC cluttering it up.

Any bets on the first response directing me to Settings -> Storage -> Change where new content is saved.

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