Windows 10: How to keep documents/pictures on my device without uploading them to onedrive?

Hi, I've recently uploaded thousands of photos onto my pc and my OneDrive has begun to sync them, however this has instantly filled up my OneDrive resulting in me not being able to send/receive emails on that account which is a major issue considering i need it for work and school. so is there a way to keep the files on my pc without uploading them to OneDrive and if there is a way will the files always be accessible as i don't want to remove them from OneDrive and lose so many memories.Many thanks fin

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How do I control the windows files security that OneDrive puts on files uploaded from an android device

Hi JohnJCAT

Thanks for getting back.

To further assist you, I suggest that you try these steps here.

1. Check if the you can open the file online on OneDrive.com?

2. To control the Windows file security that OneDrive puts on files uploaded from an Android device, you can follow these steps:

1. Right-click on the "Pictures" folder and select "Properties".
   
2. Click on the "Security" tab.
   
3. Click on the "Advanced" button.
   
4. Check the box that says "Replace all child object permission entries with inheritable permission entries from this object".
   
5. Click "OK" to apply the changes.
   

This should ensure that the security on the files uploaded from your Android device to OneDrive will inherit the security from the "Pictures" folder on your Windows device.

Sincerely,





Microsoft Community Forum Moderator

 

Problem with location of Pictures library after making pictures available on OneDrive

Thanks Rhina

I did what you suggested but it ended up making OneDrive the Pictures library. This may have something to do with the way i originally moved the Pictures folders to OneDrive. I probably should explain:

Because there already was a (fairly empty) Pictures folder under OneDrive (automatically set up I think when transferring a few Ipad photos to PC via OneDrive) I had moved the top level Pictures folders into D/users/myname/OneDrive rather than moving
the Pictures folder itself. This was probably a bit stupid but I subsequently moved the top level Pictures folders into that pre-existing Pictures folder on OneDrive and that's how we got to where we are today.

To continue after that diversion. Following the restore you suggested, the pictures folder under Libraries was still wrong but it looked a lot better ie it was no longer offering me a choice of locations for Pictures folders and, instead was just showing
me all the top level folders for what it (wrongly) thought was the Pictures folder. But it was still not appearing directly under This PC.

My next step was to go into Properties option for Libraries/Pictures. Here I simply added the correct location D/users/myname/OneDrive/pictures and deleted the location D/users/myname/OneDrive which at that time was the current location.

So, on the Positive side:

• Libraries/Pictures now shows what I would expect ie my top level Pictures folders

But, on the negative side:

• Pictures still does not appear under This PC, unlike Documents, Videos, Music etc
• in the Photos app, if I go to Folders option, it shows the folder as OneDrive, not OneDrive/Pictures even though, if i go into "choose where to look" it is correctly showing OneDrive/Pictures as the location. Obviously i can still get to the photos I need
  but it's an extra unnecessary step
  

That's where i am currently.

 

Cant backup Desktop, Documents and Pictures using Windows 10 File History

I turned File History off as suggested and removed the
C:\Users\User\OneDrive folder from the backup list as well as the following libraries and then turned in back
on.



C:\Users\User\OneDrive\Pictures

C:\Users\User\OneDrive\Pictures\Camera Roll

C:\Users\User\OneDrive\Pictures\Saved Pictures

C:\Users\User\OneDrive\Documents

C:\Users\Use\OneDrive\Desktop

The resulting backup was 7.77 GB and included:







Can you pleae advice next steps? Thank you.