Gaming One Drive cluelessness

[Arch Feline]

At one point I had onedrive showing in file explorer. Now I have to log into it. The real problem though is that skydrive is taking up 30 gb and I want to delete it without losing anything.

I also want to have stuff just go to One Drive directly.

 

[Ryccardo]

Hmmm...

If you are using the official (builtin) client on 8.0 or 10, you don't have a choice - the entire onedrive folder in your user profile is synced to the server full time
On 8.1 you can turn files in placeholders (not currently downloaded, but can be selected in a standard file open dialog and will be downloaded on demand)

If you do disable it (group policy, and/or "c:\windows\syswow64\onedrivesetup.exe /uninstall") then the current contents of the folder become independent of the server, and you can meddle with them as desired with no effect (you will need to use the website or a 3rd party client, if any, to upload and download)

 

[Arch Feline]

I have WIN 10. When One Drive was first rolled out, the folder
Sky Drive was renamed One Drive. It appears in the hierarchy under "This PC" I never did anything deliberately. Somehow I no longer get One Drive in file explorer.

If I do a search from the icon on the task bar, I get "One Drive app." I select this and file explorer opens Skydrive.

 

[Captain_N]

you can add the onedrive folder back.

 

[Minox]

At one point I had onedrive showing in file explorer. Now I have to log into it. The real problem though is that skydrive is taking up 30 gb and I want to delete it without losing anything.

I also want to have stuff just go to One Drive directly.

You should be able to "Free up space" if you right-click the files in there. What happens then is that One Drive makes sure that the files are synced properly online and then it removes the files from the local harddrive.