onedrive - sync issue

First I exited onedrive and that cleared the 'sync pending' flags up until I tried to remove the onedrive folder only to almost trash my entire file system. Took nearly 2 hours to recover but NOW, even with onedrive disabled on startup, fully half my file system is still unavailable for being tied up in the onedrive folder. I have been able to recover 3 sub-folders from the onedrive folder by copying to a new folder. The problem is how do I release the 'sync pending' flags and gain access to all my files again?

Just finished working on my file system. Found the unlink this pc button in onedrive. I had to restart it to get that. Once the unlink completed and I had once again exited onedrive I still had some problems but only in the 'quick access window. All I had to do to fix that was unpin the blocked icons and return to the original files, now unlocked, to re-pin them. Unlinking the pc removed the 'sync pending' flags restoring file access.

I post this edit in case it may help others foolish enough to use onedrive (at all) on a slow access internet connection.