When OneDrive isn’t OneDrive

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ONEDRIVE By Will Fastie You think you know what you’re talking about, and then reality hits you smack on the nose. You may recall that I have two OneD
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In my first encounter with OneDrive, I first moved the folder from the OS partition to a partition on another HDD, then setup the folders I wanted in OneDrive.  I set it to launch when I signed into Windows.  Since then it has always worked silently in the background.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

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bbearren wrote:

In my first encounter with OneDrive

That sounds interesting. Care to share more details about how you did it? And when?

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Will Fastie wrote:

Care to share more details about how you did it? And when?

As for when, it was part of Outlook 365, five or more years ago.  Before I activated OneDrive, I moved the folder.  At that time, onedrive.exe had to be run in order to activate OneDrive and select the folders/files that one wished to have in the cloud.

I don’t recall having to do any registry work, but I may have moved the folder from the other side of my dual boot; I don’t really remember.  I’ve never had an issue with it, and I can access OneDrive from my Android phone.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

Computer Specs

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What does “Error: Are you sure you wanted to do that?” mean? Do what?

And where did the text of my reply go? Did “Submit” actually work? Or have I just wasted an hour of my time?

 

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I have one of those schizophrenic – split personalities – in which I am quite happy using Windows (10 is good enough for me) but want to choose the baggage associated with the OS.  In particular I want nothing to do with OneDrive.  Primarily, I figure there is no need to have Microsoft getting access to my stuff (I know, of course they don’t actually do that…), but really I don’t need universal/remote/cloud access to my stuff,  – drive space is cheap and I’m happy having everything local and nobody wants to share anything with me anyway beyond the odd picture file that Dropbox or GoogleDrive manages just fine.

However getting rid of OneDrive and apps such as that are very challenging.  I’ve tried very hard to do so, following a number of tips and procedures described on a variety of resources.  I’ve been unable to do so.

I don’t use Office265 or whatever it is called these days – I have an older (2019) perpetual version installed that I’m slowly moving away from…

Can you provide a procedure to delete finally and permanently OneDrive from my system?

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https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/removing-built-in-apps-from-win10-2004-20h2-21h1/

If you want to get rid of the UWP Apps, you need to uninstall for the Current User, All Users, and deprovision the Apps using the /online command.

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Richard Merchant wrote:

Can you provide a procedure to delete finally and permanently OneDrive from my system?

Turn off, disable, or uninstall OneDrive, from Microsoft support.

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