Windows 10: Windows 11 OneDrive Documents folder issue

Discus and support Windows 11 OneDrive Documents folder issue in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; Dear Microsoft,First of all, let me hang out my frustration: screw you...I've been refreshing my windows all the time, being your customer since a very... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by Tamás Szabolcs92, Mar 8, 2024.

  1. Windows 11 OneDrive Documents folder issue


    Dear Microsoft,First of all, let me hang out my frustration: screw you...I've been refreshing my windows all the time, being your customer since a very long time ago, but as time passes, the service becomes worse and worse.So, since I bought my new computer, and installed a fresh copy of Windows 11, it began to save every personal user stuff in the cloud of OneDrive.This I realized too late, as I had no clue.Besides it's being very slow, clumsy especially that I almost never open onedrive to "sync", and extremly annoying, because I'm running out space very fast, which forbids me to recieve n

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    Tamás Szabolcs92, Mar 8, 2024
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  2. Why I have TWO Documents folders?

    ok so lemme start off my saying i recently wiped my system and installed windows 10
    and i noticed even more recently that i seem to have TWO documents folders...
    i have one that has nothing that it should in it and the other somehow is linked to Onedrive...
    the onedrive linked one has everything that the non onedrive should. (game saves, etc)
    my question is...why? is this normal cause i can't imagine it is...
    i don't think steam game save cloud will work with onedrive so i need to know, is this fixable WITHOUT another wipe? i have no idea how my onedrive got synced with my documents folder. i didn't set it up that way. any help is appreciated!
    thanks!
     
    TheMatt1984, Mar 8, 2024
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  3. OneDrive app opening Documents folder

    Long story short... When I click on my OneDrive app, it opens my Documents folder (folder in 'This PC').

    This evening I changed the location of my Documents folder to within OneDrive, and then tried to return it which somehow ended up with 'OneDrive' replacing 'Documents' in the 'This PC' list... I used a .bat file to restore 'Documents to the correct place here, but there still appears to be an issue with Onedrive.

    Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to fix this?

    Thank you!
     
    LAndersonBurton, Mar 8, 2024
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  4. Windows 11 OneDrive Documents folder issue

    OneDrive app opening Documents folder

    I had checked a restore point, but unfortunately being a new laptop, there wasn't any (I'll be sure to make one before faffing around in future..!).

    Solution: Once I'd used the .bat file, the Location Property option had returned. I used the Location Property settings to relocate the Documents folder into OneDrive (the first step I had done) and this reset the issues I has having, allowing me the option to move the Documents folder back to being separate (I chose not to do this in the end as having it in OneDrive meant it automatically saved via OneDrive and to the 'This PC' Documents folder.
     
    LAndersonBurton, Mar 8, 2024
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