The state of OneDrive

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ONEDRIVE By Ed Tittel Microsoft OneDrive is a cloud-based file storage service that dates all the way back to 2007. It has become more tightly integra
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Norio, WSGeo, ibe98765, Perq, fisher75, lmacri, BobbyB, Kathy Stevens, DLivesInTexas

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OneDrive’s biggest nuisance for me is it’s insistence on using it for backup.  It constantly pops up in the notification center, file manager and Microsoft 365.  I only use OneDrive for a few files to sync with my phone and will never use it for backup.

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Zathras: I feel your pain, as do many other Windows users. As another member has alredy pointed out (thanks Alex 5723!) you can indeed disable OneDrive notifications. There are many users (and organizations) that disable OneDrive to make use of other cloud-based storage services.

Thanks for your comment!

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WSGeo

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Zathras wrote:

It constantly pops up in the notification center

You can disable OneDrive notifications

How to disable Windows Backup notification in Windows 11/10

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Ed Tittel

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Alex5723 wrote:

You can disable OneDrive notifications

How to disable Windows Backup notification in Windows 11/10

That link has nothing to do with OneDrive:

DisableMonitoring

On Windows client platforms beginning with Windows 7, users are automatically prompted to configure the Windows Backup feature if they have not already done so. These notifications appear at computer startup time, beginning seven days after the operating system is installed. They also appear when the user plugs in a hard disk drive; in this case, the notifications appear immediately.

Registry Keys and Values for Backup and Restore

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We have cloud storage provided by an organization other than Microsoft.

So the question for us is, how do we safely remove/disable OneDrive?

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See Turn off, disable, or uninstall OneDrive [Microsoft Support]

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Here again other members have beat me to the punch, but you should also find this Google search “site:Askwoody.com disable onedrive” interesting as well. As I mentioned in my previous reply to Zathras, many individuals and organizations disable/turn off OneDrive altogether.

Thanks for your comment.

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I am using the installed (as in Office 16) version of Onedrive.  I don’t want to be dependant on internet connection to access info,  give MS access to my info, or (the real reason MS pushes online ON, and ON for backup)  be  having to increase cloud storage as data accumulates.

I presume the info in this article doesn’t apply to me.

ON was such a promising program when it was first released, until it was absorbed into Office and the ON dev team dissolved.  So it remains an “ok” note storage app.  Search is mediocre, still can’t move ‘containers’ between pages, can’t print a ‘container’ or ‘selection’ from a page, etc, etc.

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