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Unlink One Drive from my PC
I have to rebuild my PC recently. Accidentally, I have added One Drive to my system without paying attention to it. I don't want to save my files on my desktop, document and photo folder onto One Dri...
- You have created a real mess for yourself.
If possible, you need to reinstall OneDrive and set it up again the way it was.
THEN:
right-click the little cloud icon in your system tray and choose the Setting wheel in the top right corner. Choose settings again from the popup window. This takes you to the OneDrive configuration windows. Select the "Settings" tab and uncheck the "Start OneDrive automatically..." box. Select Account and select Unlink this PC. Then choose OK.
When OneDrive finishes putting any/all of your files back on your local system, it will invite you to configure OneDrive, close it, and it's gone. Then you can delete the OneDrive folder on your system.
Also, the 2 folders have no content in it.......
You have created a real mess for yourself.
If possible, you need to reinstall OneDrive and set it up again the way it was.
THEN:
right-click the little cloud icon in your system tray and choose the Setting wheel in the top right corner. Choose settings again from the popup window. This takes you to the OneDrive configuration windows. Select the "Settings" tab and uncheck the "Start OneDrive automatically..." box. Select Account and select Unlink this PC. Then choose OK.
When OneDrive finishes putting any/all of your files back on your local system, it will invite you to configure OneDrive, close it, and it's gone. Then you can delete the OneDrive folder on your system.
If possible, you need to reinstall OneDrive and set it up again the way it was.
THEN:
right-click the little cloud icon in your system tray and choose the Setting wheel in the top right corner. Choose settings again from the popup window. This takes you to the OneDrive configuration windows. Select the "Settings" tab and uncheck the "Start OneDrive automatically..." box. Select Account and select Unlink this PC. Then choose OK.
When OneDrive finishes putting any/all of your files back on your local system, it will invite you to configure OneDrive, close it, and it's gone. Then you can delete the OneDrive folder on your system.
OneDrive settings, Account, Unlink this PC
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- Thanks for your reply.
I follow your instructions until "Unlink this PC". Can't even hit [OK]. The computer does not do anything afterwards. And the Pictures and Documents folders still point to One Drive.
Thanks again.rsdofnyIt can take a rather long time.
Look at the cloud in the system tray. (you may need to hover your mouse pointer over it) and you should get a message (signing out) which will last for possibly a long time.
Be patient, when the cloud turns grey with a diagonal line through it, you are unlinked. Then you can sign out and in again and OneDrive will be disconnected.
- Thanks...that works.
My system was complicated by some of the software installed that were linked to the 2 folders. The software created folders inside the Pictures and Documents folder to store temp files or library. So I used regedit to change the entries that reference to One Drive. After that, I could restore the location of the Pictures and Document folders back to my C drive.
I don't know if it helps when I go into the registry and remove any entry that has reference to One Drive location in the software that have folders created in the Pictures and Documents folders.
After that, I right click the Pictures folder. I choose the Location tab and hit the Restore Default button. The folder is now restored to the C: drive.
