Windows 10: Onedrive is stupid, tried to delete everything on my computer and has a terrible service.

So, long story short, i only use Onedrive to backup everything on my computer. I unchecked every options in "Choose Folder" in "Files on-demand" and it has been backing up fine since then. Then on today, it suddenly starts marking all options in File on-demand and downloading everything i have on my Onedrive into my computer, and when i try to stop it by unchecking them all, it keeps saying that "Sorry, cannot stop syncing right now" or "This file is important so it can't be stopped". So i killed the Onedrive service, delete the Onedrive folder, and for some reason, it suddenly started deleting my whole hard drive. I managed to stop mid-way, but the damage was already done.


Thank God that i had large portion of those files backed up to Google already, so i didn't lose everything, but this will be the last time i'll have that sh*t on my computer and probably stick to uploading through browser, which it consistently crashing it whenever i try to upload something that's over 50GB.

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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 Delete Confirmation Message

Don't know if this will solve your problem, but suggest you uninstall OneDrive, then delete the OneDrive folder in C:\Users\User-name\AppData\Local\Microsoft, and then reinstall OneDrive.

 

No onedrive

Hello Francis,

Doing the steps below to install the latest version of OneDrive may be able to help.

1. Download and install the latest version of OneDrive that's rolling out with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
2. Restart your computer.
3. After your computer restarts, select the Start button, search for “OneDrive”, and then select the OneDrive desktop app.
4. When OneDrive Setup starts, enter your personal account, or your work or school account, and then select Sign in.