How do I stop Onedrive from uploading or syncing new files without losing them from my PC?

[Iggy Wolf]

Seriously, the way they designed Onedrive is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ retarded. I have to essentially copy my ENTIRE My Documents folder to Desktop just to prevent Onedrive from deleting it if I want to unsync it from my PC. Why not just let me prevent it from using for future uploads WITHOUT removing the whole damn folder? Why can't Microsoft make something as simply as that work without the convoluted deletion ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥?!

I don't need my entire mods that are 6+ GB uploaded to Onedrive. It's annoying that it doesn't even mention or offer you WHAT to choose when you first agree to Onedrive on your PC so it doesn't try to upload EVERYTHING on there without your consent, only to find out you have to remove it later, AFTER it's already uploaded and would remove it from your PC (why it would need to remove it from PC is beyond me) Is it not simply making a copy as opposed to the actual files being moved to Onedrive? Is Microsoft not familiar with the "copy/paste" concept?

[my new friend]

You can simply uninstall OneDrive.

[Haruspex]

First thing I do with any new Windows install is stop Onedrive from synchronizing, set it not to launch on startup, and uninstall it. I'll keep my own backups, thanks Microsoft.

[my new friend]

Escrito originalmente por 8bitbeard:

First thing I do with any new Windows install is stop Onedrive from synchronizing, set it not to launch on startup, and uninstall it. I'll keep my own backups, thanks Microsoft.

Same goes for this BS, https://imgur.com/a/2iV4drc . They just can't stop doing crap I don't want.

[Iggy Wolf]

That's the annoying thing. It won't even let me DELETE the Documents folder in Onedrive after I backed it back up to my My Documents on my PC because it doesn't have "privileges" from my User (even though I gave it administration access). At least then, it would bring back some space since I stopped backing it up to Onedrive anyway.