❌ OneDrive's backup function is broken. I'll explain why and what to do about it.

❌ OneDrive Backup? No thanks
The “Manage folder backup” option in OneDrive moves the contents of your Documents (and Desktop and Pictures) folder into the OneDrive folder. This can cause you to exceed your OneDrive storage limits. Turning the feature off isn’t enough to undo the damage.

Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/156972

🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub

✅ Watch next ▶ Half a Dozen Uses for OneDrive ▶    • Half a Dozen Uses for OneDrive  

Chapters
0:00 OneDrive Backup Problem
0:38 What it's doing
1:30 What happens to your documents
3:00 Finding your documents folders
5:15 The cloud
8:10 Enabling OneDrive backup
11:30 OneDrive moves Documents
13:10 Data limits
15:00 Turn off backup
16:00 Where are your documents?
17:20 Putting everything back
18:20 The short explanation
21:00 Recommendation

❤️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best
❤️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1

More Ask Leo!
☑️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered
☑️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter.
☑️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo!
☑️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-... for even more!

#askleo #onedrive #backup