Ghostmaker Posted Tuesday at 06:57 PM Posted Tuesday at 06:57 PM (edited) If you delete all the info from onedrive desktop backup will that delete all info from your actual deaktop? As i cant use my emails currently due to the one drive being full HELP Edited Tuesday at 07:34 PM by Ghostmaker
Rudel_chw Posted Tuesday at 08:10 PM Posted Tuesday at 08:10 PM 1 hour ago, Ghostmaker said: If you delete all the info from onedrive desktop backup will that delete all info from your actual deaktop? As i cant use my emails currently due to the one drive being full HELP I'd love to help, but I have never experienced with that aspect of OneDrive .. for me, I opted to just backup the OneDrive folder, where I store all my data worth saving, while the remaining Windows Folders are kept out of OneDrive, like this: If I were in your shoes, I would contact MS Support to get the correct answer to your question. 1 For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
EricJ Posted Tuesday at 08:31 PM Posted Tuesday at 08:31 PM OneDrive will automatically back up files that it's set to upload to the cloud. I've had game files and so on sent to OneDrive, but never emails. I'd suggest you delete the stuff, your Outlook will be fine. Homepage | Discord | Linktree | YouTube 'Nearly everyone felt the need to express their views on all wars to me, starting with mine. I found myself thinking, “I ate the crap sandwich, you didn’t, so please don’t tell me how it tastes.”' - CPT Cole, US Army
Rudel_chw Posted Tuesday at 08:37 PM Posted Tuesday at 08:37 PM 4 minutes ago, EricJ said: OneDrive will automatically back up files that it's set to upload to the cloud. The OP question was: "if I delete my desktop files from the cloud, do they get erased from my PC desktop?" For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
EricJ Posted Tuesday at 08:37 PM Posted Tuesday at 08:37 PM Ahh well, yeah they do Homepage | Discord | Linktree | YouTube 'Nearly everyone felt the need to express their views on all wars to me, starting with mine. I found myself thinking, “I ate the crap sandwich, you didn’t, so please don’t tell me how it tastes.”' - CPT Cole, US Army
Ghostmaker Posted Tuesday at 08:39 PM Author Posted Tuesday at 08:39 PM I think its had stuff sent to onedrive from 2012 that i didnt even realise, also lots of images and things from steam, i dont generally use steam, it also has skins in tbere from mods on dcs.
Dragon1-1 Posted Tuesday at 10:49 PM Posted Tuesday at 10:49 PM It can cause problems if you back up your documents folder. Some games use "my documents" for storing save data, despite Saved Games existing. Some devs (like the dorks who make Stationeers, for example) use in that way in 2025. It seems Microsoft never explicitly stated "saved games go into saved games folder", so the bad practices continue, and OneDrive has no good way to deal with that situation.
Ghostmaker Posted 14 hours ago Author Posted 14 hours ago Is there a way i can free things up? Worst case ill have to change my email address to a new one and then update all my stuff to the new email... pain in the a###
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