https://www.alemasone.com/en/tags/onedrive/Recent content in OneDrive on AlemasoneHugoenSun, 20 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0200https://www.alemasone.com/en/uninstall-onedrive-windows-11-no-data-loss/Mon, 18 May 2026 12:59:10 +0000https://www.alemasone.com/en/uninstall-onedrive-windows-11-no-data-loss/<div class="lead !mb-9 text-xl"> Uninstalling <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/it-it/onedrive/turn-off-disable-or-uninstall-onedrive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">OneDrive</a> takes only a minute. Doing it <strong>without ending up with an empty Desktop and half your documents missing</strong> requires three steps beforehand that almost no one does. There are two culprits: files that are <strong>online-only</strong>, which act as placeholders on your disk rather than actual files, and <strong>folder backup</strong>, which moves your Desktop, Documents, and Pictures into OneDrive without clearly telling you. </div> <p>The correct order is always this: download everything to your disk, stop the folder backup, unlink your account, and only at the very end uninstall the application. If you signed into Windows 11 with a Microsoft account, it is very likely that folder backup is active even if you don’t remember it: the initial setup suggests it, and often turns it on automatically.</p>