I recently bought a new PC (first time with Windows 11) and downloaded a few games on it. Sadly, some of them (like civilisation) store their files and saves in the “documents” folder, that unbeknown to me, was automatically copied to OneDrive (I didn’t have this problem on my previous W7/W10 computers and laptops). After just one game OneDrive is out of memory (it also doesn’t like the file extension on civ save files), and now I’m in a bit of a pickle.

So I have 2 questions:
1) Can I disable the automatic OneDrive download? And if yes, how?
2) How to delete files already in OneDrive, without deleting files on my PC.

I tried deleting them from “documents” in OneDrive, but ended up deleting them on my hardware too. Its not just about games, but files that are valuable to me, but I wouldn’t want them in the cloud.

I apologise if this was already answered, but I was unable to find any advice and the problem is rather irritating for me.

​I recently bought a new PC (first time with Windows 11) and downloaded a few games on it. Sadly, some of them (like civilisation) store their files and saves in the “documents” folder, that unbeknown to me, was automatically copied to OneDrive (I didn’t have this problem on my previous W7/W10 computers and laptops). After just one game OneDrive is out of memory (it also doesn’t like the file extension on civ save files), and now I’m in a bit of a pickle.So I have 2 questions:1) Can I disable the automatic OneDrive download? And if yes, how?2) How to delete files already in OneDrive, without deleting files on my PC.I tried deleting them from “documents” in OneDrive, but ended up deleting them on my hardware too. Its not just about games, but files that are valuable to me, but I wouldn’t want them in the cloud. I apologise if this was already answered, but I was unable to find any advice and the problem is rather irritating for me.  Read More

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