![]() On your desktop, there is a shortcut to OneDrive->Desktop folder where your files were being synced. Now, if you go back to “Choose folders” again…Īfter you do this, you might panic because all your files that used to be on your Desktop are gone! Fear not!! They are still on your computer. As you can see, I’ve already done it on mine. Then you can stop any of these folders from being backed up on OneDrive by clicking on “Stop backup” link. 1 While on your desktop (Win+D) or in File Explorer (Win+E), select the folder (s) you want to delete, and press the keys you want in the table below. The reason why OneDrive doesn’t let you stop syncing Desktop/Documents/Pictures folders is because they are being backed up, which is a separate setting. So I went and dug around all the options within OneDrive. I didn’t want to follow the solution on the second link. ![]() ![]() It seems like there is a general frustration among users that you CANNOT stop desktop from syncing. I really didn’t want this so of course, I went to look for a solution online. I noticed that icons on my desktop had little status icon that said it has been uploaded. I realized one day that OneDrive started syncing folders that I did not configure it to. ![]()
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