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Re: Purging OneDrive on new install

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Alan K. wrote on 1/13/25 4:31 PM:
> On 1/13/25 02:37 PM, ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ wrote:
>> Alan K. wrote on 1/11/25 4:01 PM:
>>> I got my hands on a new laptop.
>>> After starting it up, I answered all the questions, putting in the MS 
>>> login (no local account), and eventually getting a login window.
>>>
>>> I found that OneDrive was install.  I kinda knew it would.  So I want 
>>> to remove it.
>>> I stopped it, turned off sync, and then went into settings-apps and 
>>> removed it.  The folders were empty.  But they are linked Documents = 
>>> C:\users\name\onedrive\Documents
>>> So I have some batch files that change a few registry entries.
>>> 3 batch files for Pictures, Documents, Desktop.  Looking at them they 
>>> are simply editing these keys.
>>> HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
>>> and
>>> HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell 
>>> Folders
>>>
>>> While I was looking, I don't remember, but I'm sure I checked all.
>>>
>>> I then deleted the onedrive folder in the users home folder.
>>> Major majority of things work.  Things in the file explorer, links I 
>>> tested.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what the user was doing but we were doing something and 
>>> got an error that some onedrive folder was not available.   I wish she 
>>> had not gone thru it so fast.  I've asked if it comes up again to stop 
>>> and make a note of it.
>>>
>>> Does anyone else have suggestions that I might check?
>>> I did not remove folders in AppData/*  so maybe that should be done?
>>>
>> It's not really sufficient to abort the OneDrive process and just turn 
>> off the sync process.
>>
>> The preferred successful method for disabling OneDrive(OD) for 
>> subsequent later removal and/or future use requires multiple steps and 
>> those first steps require OD to be signed on with the same logged on 
>> MSFT account that initially loaded OD on first use.
>>
>> Note: Perform the following in the exact sequence numbered below. Do 
>> not deviate from the numbered steps.
>>
>> 1. Load/Open/Sign on with the MSA ODDis
>> 2. Disable OD from startup in Windows Settings
>>   - Settings/Apps/Startup => Toggle off OD
>> 3. Disable OD Backup
>>   - OD/Settings/Sync and Backup/Manage Backup => Toggle off all items, 
>> Save Changes
>> 4. Disable all other Sync and Backup items
>>   - OD/Settings/Sync and Backup => toggle off all items(Photos, 
>> Screenshots, all Preference items, all Advanced settings items(expand 
>> to see all items)
>> 5. Disable all folder syncing
>>   - OD/Account/Choose Folders => uncheck 'Sync all files and folders', 
>> click OK
>> 6. Disable all Notifications => Toggle off all items
>> 7. Unlink OD from the device
>>   - OD/Settings/Unlink this pc
>> Having completed all the above steps in the above sequence, look for 
>> the OD icon on the task bar, if the OD icon is present on the TaskBar, 
>> then perform the next step
>> 9. Rt. click on the OD icon, select Pause Syncing to expand, then 'Quit 
>> OneDrive'
>> Continue with the next steps
>> 10. Restart Windows
>> 11. Open a browser(Edge, Chrome, Firefox etc.) and access/signon the OD 
>> online UI(use the same MSA!!!! and password to signon)
>>   - In the OD online UI, click on 'My files.
>>   - Inspect any folders for contents(files, etc.)to determine if 
>> anything that was previously synced needs to be restored(downloaded 
>> back to the logged on Windows user account's.
>>   - Once inspection and download done, then delete all files in the 
>> online OD folders.
>>   - Logoff the OD online UI, close the browser
>>
>> One can now effectively proceed to leave OD present on Windows or 
>> uninstall it properly.
>>   To uninstall
>> 12. Windows/Settings/Apps/Installed apps/OD
>>   - click the 3 dot ellipsis, click 'Uninstall'
>>   - do not interrupt or abort the process
>> 13. Restart Windows
>>
>>
> That looks like what I did.  Thanks.  I'm keeping a copy of this.
> 

You're welcome.
  It wasn't entirely clear the process you used, thus the 
step-by-step/itemization sequences.

  I did not comment on the AppData folders(assumed to be OD in the user's 
AppData\Local\OneDrive or AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive)
  => If you followed the step by step process and use 
Windows\Settings\...\Installed apps to uninstall OneDrive, those folders 
have some components integrated with Windows and other apps that are not 
necessary to delete, in fact they've been known to be recreated by other 
Windows or Store or Office Updates...thus I lean towards instructing to 
just leave them alone.

Separately, nothing wrong when OneDrive is properly unlinked(after using 
the stepped sequenced or after the stepped sequenced[and uninstalled] to 
delete the folders and contents of the logged on Microsoft account in 
Windows(C:\Users\<username>\OneDrive).


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...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

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