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Undoing unsuccessful Onedrive 'backup'
Hello, As far as I can tell, this has been asked but not satisfactorily answered. My workplace encourages us to use OneDrive, and I need to move to a new laptop soon, so I thought I should fi...
Thank you for your sympathy.
It is not correct that OneDrive has done what I have asked it to do. The standard definition of 'backup': 'a copy of a file or other item of data made in case the original is lost or damaged'. This does not include deleting files from their original location or redirecting paths.
It is not only Windows that perceives that extra file space is being consumed. WinDirStat agrees. Perhaps the problems I am now encountering result from my stopping the process because it seemed to have stalled, but I think it's reasonable to stop something that does not meet general expectations of what a backup should do.
You need to talk to your IT department. The user profiles folder userX\Documents has been redirected to UserX\OneDrive\Documents so that the OneDrive4 client can back the files up. Much like in earlier days when user profiles were redirected to network folder shares.
WinDirStat is not a good tool for these purposes. There are oodles of internet references to it not dealing with local cloud folders correctly.
"It is not correct that OneDrive has done what I have asked it to do. "What you wrote in your original post is all I have to go off, plus that being entirely consistent with you using the OneDrive folder redirection feature. If you're doing something different then the onus is on you to explain it clearly and unambiguously.
Again, ask your local IT department.
WinDirStat is not a good tool for these purposes. There are oodles of internet references to it not dealing with local cloud folders correctly.
"It is not correct that OneDrive has done what I have asked it to do. "What you wrote in your original post is all I have to go off, plus that being entirely consistent with you using the OneDrive folder redirection feature. If you're doing something different then the onus is on you to explain it clearly and unambiguously.
Again, ask your local IT department.
