How Do I Delete Files From OneDrive, but Not My Computer?
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- ❓❔ There are a couple of ways to delete files from OneDrive without deleting them from your PC: move them or stop using OneDrive.
The best way to delete a file from OneDrive but keep it on your computer is to move it out of your OneDrive folder to another folder on your PC that isn’t within OneDrive. Depending on the urgency, you may then want to empty OneDrive’s Recycle Bin online. The other approach is to unlink OneDrive from your computer entirely.
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Would it have been too much to simply add a button that says "Unsync"? How the hell did they mess something like this up? How couldn't they think that people would want to remove things from OneDrive only? It's such a simple yet fundamentally major design flaw that I can't wrap my head around it.
I think they just want you to fill up One Drive quickly so you will buy extra space. I think this is a really invasive and over-controlling app! I'm glad to have found this video!
Malicious intent.
Exactly!!
@@gloriapinskerportraits4801 Exactly, I just upgraded to Windows 11 and I can no longer move my files to an external drive, so I am forced to either cave in and buy more space or spend hours looking at videos and information as to how to now move my files. It's actually making me think about learning how to use Linux and getting rid of Windows completely. Not only was the upgrade a downgrade to many applications, it somehow exposed my credit card information to Bangledeshi scammers and I'm not exactly sure how, but immediately after I upgraded, I had a pending charge to my account that said it was from Microsoft, and concurrently an email from a Bangleshi scam company that said thank your for updating your Norton antivirus, we will be charging your credit card $360. I'm overseas and it is the only credit card that I have and I had to cancel it. Thanks Microsoft. Plus, I think Bill Gates is a criminal who should be on death row.
yeah it synced my entire hard drive and when i uninstalled one drive all my stuff was gone
Data should NEVER have left my PC and been placed on some public storage somewhere on the net, A). less my knowing and B). less my permission in the first place.
This modern trend of intrusion and liberty taking is infuriating.
INFURIATING!!!!!
and they call that place the "Cloud" because calling it Microsoft's Computer just wouldn't be Orwellian enough... heh...
If you (know how to) use OneDrive you _do_ know, and placing your files in the OneDrive folder implies your permission. If you don't know how OneDrive works you won't place your files in the OneDrive folder.
Solved.
@@stevenvanhulle7242 Microsoft owns you and your files anyway.
@@flipflopski2951 Paranoid much?
Hey man… THANK YOU. The fix was a little simpler than I thought. I have tried in the past to do this, and had trouble. I did it again today, and no trouble. I hate OneDrive !! I like to organize my files in my PC exactly how I want them. On the hard drive. I only want CERTAIN things to be shared. And OneDrive just wants to gobble up everything then tell me “running out of space , buy more “. Nah… I’m not BUYING MORE ANYTHING. Anyway, thank you!
Dude you saved my pc, thank you!
Abit over the top lol
I just want to say that you are AWESOME! I have asked so many people how to do this and no one could offer successful advise or instruction. Thank you for being so easy to understand and easy to follow. YOU ROCK!!!
i agree
Leo - Thanks so very much for explaining this in a clear and concise manner. I didn't realize items were going to a OneDrive storage - - UNTIL I began to get the message that my OneDrive was FULL! Then I noticed that I was getting ERROR messages on my files. I also noticed there were two Docs folder, but still didn't make a connection. WOW! How confusing! Again, many thanks!
0:35 Opening One Drive
1:02 Saving on PC only
2:00 Remove files from One Drive Recycle Bin
4:01 No longer want to use One Drive
You are the best! I can't believe how simple OneDrive really is! I've been struggling with trying to understand how it works for years and in one simple video, you've made all the pieces of information I've been able to decipher on my own make sense! I will definitely be referring back to this video whenever I need a refresher. Thank you so much for clearing up the jumble that was in my head! 😃
You explain everything perfectly. Keep up the good work :)
I am so glad I found this video, and you, Leo! I am going to bookmark your site and refer to it often.
Thanks for the clear, methodical and simple explanation. Worked flawlessly.
Thank you this OneDrive storage was stressing me out 👍🏽
This has bothered me for years and my files were always all over the place thanks to one drive. I finally consolidated everything and can find the files I need. Thank you
thank you so much! i wanted to keep my old art on my computer for memories sake but not keep them forever in the cloud. i got really frustrated with it but you made everything really clear. thank you!!
I love the way you are explaining. Amazingly calm and comprehensible. Thank you very much.
You have a gift for explaining things clearly. You saved my computer from this one drive cancer.
Thanks for the information Leo. Have a wonderful holiday season.
I've spent two weeks trying to word the problem correctly to have this question answered. Found your video and was delighted to have my problem fixed. Thank you for the warning us about unlinking your PC from OneDrive and backing up your files. I decided not to do that. However, I have moved my files to my computer and emptied the recycle bin on OneDrive. Just over-joyed. Thanks again. 💕 ~*Shana
This video answered my original question and also provided how to unlink the onedrive! Thank you!
Thank you so much! I was trying to get a folder with a bunch of videos out of onedrive. I couldn't figure it out until now!
Very informative. Just the information I was looking for. Thank you very much.
Thank you. This is very helpful information, even two years after it was posted.
What a great explanation!! Thanks, Leo!!
Thank you ! You saved my Documents ! One drive blocked my email and my computer because I exceeded the size, but I never wanted to store my docs on one drive! I sent myself a test email, I received it in return that the file is full and impossible to receive it! Mind-blowing! Thank you Greetings from France !
Double thumbs up!!! VERY helpful video 😀
Really appreciate this. As I am trying to get file structure organized.
Thank you so much for these videos! I am a One Drive newbie and this is super helpful!
Great way of explaining . not only helpful, super helpful. thanks
Another One Drive amazing video Leo. Thank you !!!!
the only person that made this work, thanks.
Thank you for this! Having an absolute nightmare with OneDrive right now. Was clearing space in it and my files were disappearing from my desktop too!
Same I straight up panicked today
Same here 🥵🥵
Same here. All gone😭
@@colbyhowell9265 Learning how to use Linux is easier that trying to make Windows usable.
Thank you very much. You explained it in the best way possible.
Thanks so much for this and keeping it short and to the point. It was driving me round the bend till I came across your video.
Many thanks Leo, i was coming close to giving my laptop flying lessons.
Thank you! I used Onedrive to move items from old pc to new, but it filled up straight away with everything and took over my desktop, lol. Perfect solution!
Wow ! That was the best how-to video I've seen on the Internet. So well presented. Thank you sir. I used to lookup solutions on the ask Leo website from the time it started. Glad you are on you tube now !!
Great info, much appreciated !
Great help, THX Leo !
Thanks Sir! Very helpful!
This helps alot. This garbage program had enabled itself without my permision and was copying my pc's files to it for so damn long so glad to have it gone thanks!
This is the best of the best one drive video ever.
Appreciate Leo for amazing advise
Thank you for the video!
this has been giving me a ton of trouble, thank you so much for the solution!! it feels really shady that there isn't a more intuitive option, everything in onedrive feels clunky and convoluted. i wasn't even aware until recently that the things i was saving weren't saved directly to my pc, and the only thing that made it clear were the storage errors and the constant insistence that the only way to get more space was to buy more onedrive storage (which i by no means have a real need for, i have more than enough space on my pc). again, thank you!
Thank you so much for making this video. It was easy to follow and easy for me to remove stuff from onedrive and place it only on my laptop.
Thank you so much Leo!
THANK YOU! I have been using Windows since Windows '93. I have been out of the look since around the launch of Windows 10, and I didn't pay much attention to OneDrive at the time. About five months ago I got my current machine and files have been syncing to OneDrive on their own. I have been trying to free up space on my OneDrive but kept deleting them from being accessed on my laptop afterward. I didn't realize Microsoft made a distinction between the 'pictures' and 'documents' folders under 'This PC' and the user's folders listed under C:/
Thanks a lot. You were a big help Sir much appreciated.
Thank you Leo for your clear and concise instructions! Very helpful indeed!
thank you sm this really helped!
Oh my god. I had a intense problem with onedrive for 6 months! You fixed it
Thank you very much. I did not understand the relationship between onedrive and my computer, so I deleted files off onedrive. THANK GOD for BACKUPS !
"THANK GOD for BACKUPS !" SO TRUE! 👍
Thank you very much for this helpfull information !
Sir, thank you for your help, that was great
Very helpful. Ty!
Really great and helpful, easy to understand tutorial! Thank you.
hello! Thank you Leo ..Now I have free my one drive. Thank you so much!
Thank you for your service, everything I saw just kept switching to to pictures under "This PC", where in my case, the pictures originated from. With this I just tried the actual Local Disk user and it worked.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, YOU ARE A LEGEND
FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! YOU ROCK!
Thanks for the video. Like an idiot, I did not realize the files were being uploaded.
This was perfect. Accidentally installed 22gb of songs onto one drive and it filled the storage and screwed everything up. This helped so much Thanks
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One Drive Duplicates everything in your Documents of the "C" Drive and then takes up Harddrive space decreasing your Storage on your Computer.
Do you know if I save my documents to my D:/ drive instead of to my C:/ drive if they will then not be accessible to OneDrive? I think OneDrive is an invasion of privacy and it should ask before saving to the cloud.
@@sydneym.778 Typically, if you're saving anything to the D:/ Drive, you're getting ready to save it to a CD or DVD, as that's the default drive letter for a CD / DVD player.
The point is there is a limited amount of storage you can use on OneDrive before having to PAY for more. Watse of money. I have 200 GB left on my storage. I do not need One Drive. And if I see one more 'Storage is Full' notification I'm getting a new computer out of spite
Thanks for the well thought out video and description! I'm still having trouble knowing whether or not deleting photos from OneDrive is also going to delete it from various locations on my phone and or computer. If I delete OneDrive from my phone does that secure the photos that are inside of my Samsung Galaxy gallery ? I currently have sync turned off in the gallery but I don't know if that protects the images that are within. I tried following the directions and right clicking on the OneDrive icon but it said that it could not connect to the server and that there was a problem.
Thank you so much!
I was so confused thanks
Thank you so much, I’m trying to download the sims, you saved me!!!
Leo always talks sense.
Plain and simple. Thanks
hi, if i uninstall one drive, is my files in desktop will be lost or not?
great explanation! One drive drives me crazy ;)
me as well - I hate work on this platform
it is so unintuitive
the first thing that happened is that it backed up my folder on my C drive and clogged my machine
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Thank You so much for this! I just got Windows 11 and onedrive immediately filled up and put red X's on my PC on every video photo and document I have, and constantly popping up "Buy the upgrade! Buy the upgrade!" so annoying. The only thing I want it for is sometimes it's easier to share a pic with someone through there
Hi Leo, thanks for this video, a question, on my PC the Macros in Word that I record (automated shortcuts for different things that require many steps) disappear suddenly and often, I followed instructions on line how to save and back up but still that continues to happen, do you have an advice on how to save, back up and reinstall macros in Word. Thanks in advance, Paul
Thanks Leo
thank you!
Thank You!!
Thanks grandpa, This is helpful. This is the thing I'm looking for, because I'm having trouble with file saving.
You're welcome, little child.
@@askleonotenboom ✔
Thanks!
Great Video👏👏👏
thanks sir..!
thank you so much u saved my computer
I don't understand: You have two 'Document' folders - one is INSIDE the OneDrive folder, and the other one is the *normal* "Document" folder - that you claim has nothing to do with OneDrive. But when you (in Windows Explorer) click on the path to this *normal* folder, it is also in a subfolder of OneDrive! (In this path, it says OneDrive just below the username.)
Please explain.
You are my 2021 pc savior! It's pestering me how this one drive icon keeps appearing it is full and that i can't easily open files without that app poppin up.
Don't you just wish for the 'good old days', when the Operating System for your PC, came with a Users Manual, that listed all the various commands ?
HOW DO I MOVE DESKTOP FOLDER IF IT SYNCED IT TO ONE DRIVE PLEASE HELP
Try Linux.
Thank you so much -- so helpful! I find One Drive very invasive. I was appalled to find out that if you delete something from it, it disappears from your computer and all other devices! I prefer to pick and choose what gets saved to OneDrive.
It happened to me. Deleted some files n pictures, videos from onedrive, and horrified to find all of them been auto deleted frm my pc & hp. 😭😭😭
This is criminal by MS.
and microsoft doesn't tell you that you're deleting from more than one location...
I need to free space. I CUT and PASTE a couple big folders from my explorer, to a diffeent fodler entirely. but onedirve is redownloading them aghain and reeing no space! WHat is going wrong? NOw I have 850 GB in my windows onedrive flder but it is reporting online drive as having almost 1 TB. I want to clean up and delete eveything from online onedrive cloud that is not sitting inside myt local onedrive folder. Any way? My onedirve windows folder has all the file I want, and onine cloud onedribe for some reason has alot more.
Thank you sr
I bought a new computer and was moving files and folders over from an external hard drive. I kept getting annoying pop-ups telling me I'm filling up One Drive, until the final one that said it's 101% full and I can no longer sync or save data. That freaked me out but now I see it's nothing to do with my latop, just the OneDrive.
I never asked to use One Drive, heck I didn't even know what it was. I found I could stop using it but when I clicked on it, it gave me a warning that made me wonder if what's stored there will be deleted. It would be nice if they actually asked us first if we wanted it and what we actually want to put in the cloud,
Thank you for your video. I've been searching for days trying to find out what's what and your video explains the whole process very well. I still have a qburning uestion though.
Mine says I have 239 sync issues. After watching your video, I clicked to see what was in it and there are so many folders affected with maybe one file each with a X on them. From my point of view, it would be a monumental task to get those files back one by one. Unless you have a better option, although I dread doing it, I can stop the association like you direced, (I do not want anything to do with OneDrive) and then move all 700 gigs of data over to the new laptop again. This, along with many admin issues and my computer forcing me to sign up with MS before I could even download the Chrome browser had me ready to pack it up and return it. I've never had such a hard time settng up a new computer and I've been using them since 1998. I have been Googling for everything which is non-existant in the computer manual and that really has me upset that I've already wasted a week of my time.
I'd appreciate any adivce you have to offer.
Hi Leo, I have another problem with OneDrive. Today, I just mistakenly clicked YES to back up my Documents folder in my PC to my OneDrive, which I thought the system would allow me to choose which file, but it happened to be all the files in my Documents folder. The problem is, once I did that, there is no turning back, which I tried many times to unsync OneDrive, unlink it as well as to stop back up the folder. What happened was, all my files in the Document folder on my PC disappeared too. It seems that OneDrive has removed all my files from the PC to the OneDrive folder and never allows me to bring them back to my PC. I hope you could do a video or may be explain here on how to solve this problem.
I literally have THE SAME ISSUE !!!
Pretty sure its gone. I set up OneDrive as an alternative to some back ups I was making before a drive format, and now there's a file structure with random files missing. Like it never fully synced the files to begin with and just lied and told me it did, or synced to another computer where the files didn't exist. It's a horrible product.
7 months ago and he didnt get a reply! What am I going to do?
same problem right now...
You can press right on click files and click 'Always keep on this device'. Therefore it's actually stored.
Now I still don't know how I can keep OneDrive and have it not touch certain files, because some games store stuff in the Documents folder and I don't want to move it as the game is actually refering to these files. And there's no need to have this on my OneDrive folder online. PLEASE ONEDRIVE JUST WORK LIKE DROPBOX. 1) Get the hell out of documents. 2) Don't delete stuff unless I ask bro. 3). Don't sync stuff I don't want you to sync.
We can only dream.
Thanks a ton
Thank you so much for this fix! I don’t like that OneDrive holds my files hostage when I stop syncing.
Thank you
Hello. For some reason my computer started opening up Onedrive whenever I would plug in my phone to download photos to the PC. It seems to have taken over. I am not computer savvy. I thought I deleted Onedrive when I found it in the Uninstall list but it keeps coming on when I plug my phone to my PC. I don't want to use Onedrive at all yet I can not find the Icon anywhere in my taskbar or in the list of Apps. It automatically starts downloading my photos. Does clicking cancel completely stop it? Thanks.
my brother was on my laptop and put my sims on one drive as u could imagine- that was a lot of storage ty!!
I almost lost all my savefiles in the sims bc of onedrive :) my life flashed in front of my eyes
Hi Leo, let’s say I have empty my one drive recycle bin, that means the files are permanently deleted, but I encountered on one thing is that, I saw there is option called restore one drive, I see file there to restore, but what if wanted delete file there as well??
Thank you sooooo much... this has been a nightmare finding things... between Onedrive and google drive and I clouds.... LoL I want my own control back to save things Where I WANT ! thank you thank you !!!!
Im trying to stop syncing desktop, documents, email attachments, music and pictures so i go to this process, right click on onedrive icon - settings- backup tab- manage folder backup- click stop backup in desktop and then all Folder, Icons get delete on my desktop , account tab/ choose folder - unselect all folder and again files on desktop gets deleted. So i go to each file on my desktop including software icons and i right click/ always keep on this device and i do the same process again and still gets deleted. Do you know what else i can tried. I want to know how to stop syncing but not deleting the files on my desktop. I also notice that when i create a new folder and green dot keeps next to the folders and even on the microsoft edge icon that gets delete when i do the process explain above. Only way to keep files and icon this by unlinking onedrive account i can create a new folder but when i link onedrive again gets a green dot next to it and i do the whole process again and it gets delete. I just want to link one folder to onedrive and not my desktop. Can you help? Thank You in advance.
so is there an actual Library System in the cloud that we can access that will not insist on syncing up to a local device?
Thank you so so so so much