On Wed, 11/13/2024 8:17 PM, Bill Bradshaw wrote:
I do not know how this changed forcing me to save documents in One Drive but I need to fix this. I thought I had disabled and deleted one drive. Need some help.
That could be a setting in the OneDrive App.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/files-save-to-onedrive-by-default-in-windows-33da0077-770c-4bda-b61e-8c8e8ca70ac7
I don't like quoting articles like that, because chances are
any improvements are only temporary.
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" Getting rid of One Drive." [alt.comp.os.windows-11]
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Big Als contribution, is some corrections to the Registry, for some environment variables.
Presumably, some of these could have been assigned to OneDrive path locations. Check
the script, for registry entries you could examine.
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These are the string assignments encoded in that hex-like stuff.
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCookies
%USERPROFILE%\Desktop
%USERPROFILE%\Favorites
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local
%USERPROFILE%\Music
%USERPROFILE%\Pictures
%USERPROFILE%\Videos
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts %USERPROFILE%\Documents
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Printer Shortcuts %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates %USERPROFILE%\Downloads
%USERPROFILE%\Documents
%USERPROFILE%\Pictures
%USERPROFILE%\Pictures\Screenshots
%USERPROFILE%\Pictures\Camera Roll
%USERPROFILE%\Pictures\Saved Pictures
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The OneDrive folder itself, it's likely a tree. The third line is a recursive remove.
Problem: fsutil reparsepoint query OneDrive # showed the data
fsutil reparsepoint delete OneDrive # doesn't work, mentions "cloud file"
rd /s OneDrive # Works. Tested as Admin.
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There was one other thread "onedrive removal" in Windows-11 group.
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Big Al shows two references.
http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=msgid&MSGI=%3Cuthf5f%24289va%241%40dont-email.me%3E
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/move-or-restore-default-location-of-documents-folder-in-windows-11.8708/
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/move-or-restore-default-location-of-pictures-folder-in-windows-11.8711/
Mine was easier to clean up, because it was "not yet armed".
I haven't done the thorough cleaning of an armed one (where you
make sure you have all the files, before cutting it all loose).
From that perspective, Google Takeout is an easier experience.
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And there are lots of topics in Windows like this, where
the user must expend a huge effort to undo some shenanigans
from Microsoft. Like the Windows Updates that don't handle
WinRE properly, and report a single error code which is
frequently incorrect or inappropriate.
OneDrive has many moving parts. You have to plan your campaign
carefully, so that reparse points are corrected, Registry environment
variables are corrected, and the App is removed (and not in Startup items).
If the App is removed just at the single-user level, it can come
back when a new account is created.
Paul
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