Windows 10 And Onedrive

[bigdave1954]

Hi.

I have a relatively new computer running Windows 10. It also has Onedrive. The default was for all my documents and pictures to synch to OneDrive. However, I have thousands of photos and these used up all my OneDrive space, and also made the computer run really slowly.

I therefore turned off the synching of the photos, but kept the documents synched. The problem is that when I go into File Explorer only the OneDrive files are shown. I can get to specific photos folders under the "recents" section of File Explorer, and from this can go up and down to get to the rest of the folders.

The photos are stored in C:\users\david\pictures. If I try creating a desktop shortcut to here it automatically inserts "onedrive" into the link and then shows "this folder is empty". It is really frustrating. I am sure there is a simple solution (other than buying more OneDrive space). But I am at a complete loss to know what to do!!!

[Togo]

Perhaps read this dave Too much to explain with a few lines.

https://support.office.com/en-GB/article/Turn-off-or-uninstall-OneDrive-f32a17ce-3336-40fe-9c38-6efb09f944b0

[bigdave1954]

Thanks Togo. I tried this but part of the instructions didn't seem to work and I got lost and then had to go back and reinstate the changes I had made. I think the problem is that the stuff on my C drive isn't showing in File Manager for some reason....