Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Fokke Nauta Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 21:17:04 +0200 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <1pkhxljn84mjx.dlg@v.nguard.lh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Oyo9BlbvHbBTHmzCaHVgmwTvbjm3/jHqNvq9VLJIw39UJ/v648 Cancel-Lock: sha1:xbyE3yQOHUnRAEdmk4SJcQNnds8= sha256:EBFQL3NjqkSF83l/jC4pUU6SrvyMqhD0gnrzGvv9OBY= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.1 Content-Language: nl In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:18414 On 11/04/2025 14:04, Paul wrote: > On Fri, 4/11/2025 7:28 AM, Fokke Nauta wrote: >> On 10/04/2025 21:48, VanguardLH wrote: >>> Fokke Nauta wrote: >>> >>>> Fokke Nauta: >>>> >>>>> An acquaintance of mine has a laptop with Windows 11 Home. It used to >>>>> be Windows 10 Home but the laptop has been updated. The problem now >>>>> is that when a document is created and saved, it is saved to >>>>> OneDrive by default, and not to the SSD of the laptop. I looked at >>>>> the settings, and it said that files are saved to the SSD of the >>>>> laptop by default. This is not the case. I want the files to be >>>>> saved to the SSD by default. But how do I do that? >>>> >>>> Thanks all for your help. With your suggestions I was able to solve this >>>> problem. >>> >>> What worked.  We are a curious bunch, and like to learn, too. >> >> Jack wrote this: >> It depends on which App you are talking about but in Microsoft Office >> you can go to options and make sure the documents are saved in a >> different location. Microsoft has made it very difficult for people by >> changing the rules. >> >> I looked into Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and changed the settings for saving the documents to the local Documents account. That worked. >> >> Fokke > > If you use File Explorer, where is the Documents actually located ? > > Do Properties on it. Is it %userprofile%\OneDrive\Documents perhaps ? :-) > > This is Windows -- you have to be inquisitive, always. > > Paul Hi Paul, The folder Documents is on the laptop, in C:\users\user name\Documents. There is also a Documents folder in OneDrive. This is where all files were stored before. Fokke