Windows 10: OneDrive taking up space and causing problems!

I removed OneDrive 2 years ago but with the last update I've started experiencing issues with OneDrive files that I didn't know were still on my computer. I found a similar issue from 2018 but none of the troubleshooting helped me. I've tried deleting these files individually and entire folders but nothing happens. I hit the try again button over and over and that's all I get, no error msg, nothing! The OneDrive icon and the main file is gone but individual files are hidden in files like System 64, like shown:

Can you please tell me how to delete all these files so I can finish my updates?

:)

 

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 is causing a ton of problems

Thank you for your answers!

No there weren't any noticeable changes in my system configuration since the problems has been started (over 2 years ago :/).

I tried all the suggestions in this
thread and a few others including:

• Uninstall OneDrive - reinstall
• Unlink OneDrive - relink
• Reinstall whole operation system

I think it might have been something todo with my MS Account, because the OneDrive client on my home PC is also used by my wife and everything works fine there. Strange behavior only appears with my account.

@Grey

My OneDrive is on a separate partition but I have the same problems before as well. The many icons you see are going away when I go over with the mouse pointer, but it shows how often my OneDrive is crashing and restarting.

Performance is even better when I kill the OneDrive and DocumentCache Task in the Task Manager - everything goes back to normal.

 

Onedrive is causing a ton of problems

Hi Benedikt,

For us to better assist you, we need to ask a few questions:

• Were there any changes made before experiencing this issue?
• Are you getting any error messages when OneDrive crashes?
• What other troubleshooting steps have you tried so far?
  

You can also check
Paola Gar's post on this
link to help resolve the issue.

Looking forward to your reply.

Thank you.