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Onedrive has the desktop for my computer? Why?
So, I saw that there was a folder on my OneDrive for Desktop for my home computer. I deleted that folder....and lost everything that was on Desktop for my home computer. I was able to restore the d...
Mike WilliamsThank you. The settings for "Back up folders on this PC" has "Desktop" not backed up. I did not realize that Documents and Pictures were being backed up, so I turned those off. (I have a NAS in my house where I store those and don't store anything on this computer.)
So, if the Desktop is not supposed to be being backed up...why is it being backed up? Is there a way to fix this?
At this point you have manually interfered with the standard settings so much I can't predict what is going on. You either need someone with expertise to look at it, or - having properly backed up all your files somewhere else than your current device or OneDrive - reset OneDrive completely, ensure you don't have multiple Desktop folders and start over.
Cleaning up is much harder than breaking things.
Cleaning up is much harder than breaking things.