Why Is My Desktop in OneDrive?

✴️ OneDrive's backup feature can cause confusion and even chaos. I'll review its impact on your computer's desktop and what to do about it. ✴️ My Desktop in OneDrive OneDrive’s backup feature can sync your Desktop across multiple devices, causing unwanted clutter. Turning off the backup feature requires manual clean-up and copying or moving files to each device’s local Desktop. My advice: avoid using OneDrive’s backup feature in the first place. Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/174275 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub ✅ Watch next ▶ OneDrive is Not Backup ▶ https://youtu.be/PLzX1rfgzVI Chapters 0:00 Why Is My Desktop in OneDrive? 1:25 OneDrive’s “backup” “feature” 3:05 The Desktop folder 4:30 OneDrive backup moves things around 10:00 Undoing the damage 12:00 The shortcut 13:50 Move your files back 16:30 Repeat on other machines ❤️ 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-ways-to-get-ask-leo/ for even more! #askleo #onedrive #backup