Steam Game Downloads Suddenly Saving to OneDrive

[Wizard of Earthsea]

Hey Guys,

I don't know why, but suddenly all my content from games (save files, DLC, various content, etc.) is saving to my OneDrive and I have no idea why. All my games are on my hard drive, but any other additional content related to the game is saving it there. I assume there has to be a fix for this... can anyone help?

[Krokr]

I just got the exact same problem running Steam and Fallout 4 for the first time on a new Windows 10 computer.
It looks like Windows moved Documents to OneDrive.
And Windows always keeps 'My Games' in Documents.

The following has worked for me.

I had 2 documents folders:
C:\Users\my-user-name\Documents
C:\Users\my-user-name\OneDrive\Documents

I had restored a few files to C:\Users\my-user-name\Documents.
I moved all files from my-user-name\Documents to OneDrive\Documents.
I deleted the empty my-user-name\Documents. (I tried renaming, but it kept interfering with the other Documents. So I deleted.)

I then moved the folder Documents from OneDrive to C:\Users\my-user-name\.
I simply moved it with my mouse pointer.

I placed my Fallout 4 save file in C:\Users\my-user-name\Documents\My Games\Fallout4\Saves\.
I started Fallout 4 and it found my save file!

[✪ .LaggeR.me]

Im late to the party but if someone needs a fix just go to your bottom left right click on the OneDrive icon > Settings > Auto save > Documents > To this PC only

Thats it ! hope it helps someone

[curvycom]

This is actually quite simple to fix. People are missing the main bit of info. Do a search for windows 10 "Libraries." These are composite links that can combine onedrive, other cloud services and local directories.

Two things will need to be fixed. First, specify that local storage is being used for your Documents folder. Your google search will better explain how to do this.

Most important: Some apps, apparently Steam included and/or Steam's version of Skyrim, Nexus Mod Manager, Loot, among others will actually grab the OneDirve directory discretely even though it's supposed to be hidden by the "library" system in Win10. Therefore, before you panic and feel like you have to reinstall your game and all your mods because now that you've specified local directories, none of these programs will work, you will probably need to go to your "Onedrive" and delete or rename the "documents" directory there--after moving everything to a new directory, for instance "Docs"--once you do this your programs will default to using the local directory as you specified in the library settings.

This information is also available via google search, but I cannot now remember the search string I used to find it.

Hope this helps some of you. This solved all my problems. Once you have done this, you MAY be able to put your onedrive "Documents" directory back. But I haven't tested this yet. So beware.

[LiuChooTrain]

thanks curvycom that worked fine for me (uploading skyrim saves to onedrive really drinks up bandwidth). seems like Bethesda was soooo lazy, saves should go in the steam folder