Windows 10: OneDrive took all my files away and now can't return them to my C: drive because it wants...

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    OneDrive took all my files away and now can't return them to my C: drive because it wants...


    I’m running Windows 10 and have used Microsoft One Drive as a backup for years. I had my files on the cloud, which I could access via browser. Something must’ve changed while I was at the OneDrive site because I started getting OneDrive pop-up notifications on my desktop, which I hadn't seen before - something about not having enough space. I realized with panic that One Drive had just swallowed all of my space in C, leaving a mere 100 MBs free I had 5 GBs free. Apparently, One Drive was downloading files from my cloud storage onto my laptop as a supposed “sync”, which is not somet

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