Windows 10: How to stop OneDrive automatically creating new Documents folder

We have upgraded two PCs and a laptop to Windows 10 and use OneDrive to synchronise certain folders between them all. It seemed to work fine under windows 7. However, under Windows 10, OneDrive insists on creating a new Documents folder under OneDrive - both online and on the PCs. We have tried removing it from the online OneDrive site and the PCs and have set the option to save Documents to This PC only, yet OneDrive continually creates a new folder after a few days each time we delete it. Yet it does not do so for Pictures. It is also annoying as OneDrive, after creating this folder, then comes up with an error saying that it cannot synchronise it.

There is a long thread about this problem on the Microsoft website, http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...0-41ebc7b0fc8e, but it would appear that whoever is answering the question does not understand the problem. I wondered whether any of the gurus on Tenforums had managed to overcome this problem.

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Help! How do I stop One Drive Sync in Windows 10?

When I choose Folders and then deselect say Documents or Pictures a warning appears that says

"If you stop syncing the "Documents" folder, it will be removed from your PC and new documents you create won't be saved to OneDrive."

This is a little scary. When it says that it will remove the Documents folder does that mean that on my local hard drive the files will be removed as well as stopping the OneDrive syncing?

I just want to turn off OneDrive.

 

OneDrive paused automatically

I am using Windows 10 home and OneDrive personal, and a laptop and use WiFi for the internet.

I constantly create documents and directly save them to my laptop's OneDrive - Document folder. And the documents will automatically saved to the OneDrive Cloud storage.

Because I don't like Windows 10 Updates automatically pushed to my laptop, I set my WiFi as metered.

Now OneDrive got "paused" automatically. It is a pain to have to remember to re-sync OneDrive manually all the time.

Is there a way, in my situation, to stop OneDrive to "pause" automatically?

Thanks

Del

 

Hello and welcome to TenForums!

The short answer is that as long as you run the desktop OneDrive App you will always have a Documents folder created on OneDrive plus a Pictures folder which may also contain screenshots, camera roll or camera imports folders. These are folders which Microsoft deem necessary and they therefore add them whether you want them or not, the camera folders are related to your use of the Photos app or the Camera app in W10.

 

I suspected as much. I had just hoped that there may be a way round it.
Thanks