I have Win 11, 22H2 and a couple days ago, I decided to backup to One Drive. The term “Backup” apparently means different things to Microsoft than to me. I assumed it would simple place a copy of my files on One Drive, and keep those files up to date. That’s not what it did. It turned my computer into a OneDrive computer. My “Documents” folder is now empty. It created a different “Documents” folder and all my files are in the new Documents folder synced to OneDrive – AND it apparently had some old copies of most of my files (explained below) so it made a copy of every file. I now have 2 files for every file, one of which has “Copy” on the end of the file name – 1,000’s of “Copy” files. Instead of just making a copy (backup). What a barf!
I’d like to UnDo that and use something else for off-site backups. How do I get rid of a gizillion “Copy” files?
‘Old copies of most of my files’ – I purchased this laptop in January and it arrived with OneDrive enabled – which I was not aware of, so when I loaded all my docs – from an on-site backup drive – it also copied all those to OneDrive. I disabled OneDrive because I’ve had several bad experiences with losing OneDrive docs.
