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ciboulette05 Posted messages 67 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
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Hello,

Since I uninstalled OneDrive, Windows Explorer is completely messed up. I no longer see the "Quick access", favorites, recent files and when I right-click on a document to pin it to Quick access, I get an error message: "C\Users\my_name\.Documents\xxxx"

"Incorrect settings"

I really miss this function.

Thank you to anyone who can find the solution for me because everything I've read so far doesn't apply to my case. For example, the right-click on "Quick access" since I no longer have that section in the explorer.

I'm available if you need more details,

Thank you in advance,

Ciboulette


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alix
 

Hello

Windows 11, that's all.

The Windows Explorer displays files. But OneDrive manages them on Microsoft’s side or on the PC. In the absence of OneDrive connection, not everything is on the PC, just read.

If we politely ask Microsoft, they lend us our files for a moment to read them.
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ciboulette05 Posted messages 67 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   22
 

Thank you for the reply.

In other words, the quick access feature belongs to Microsoft 365? And does it disappear if OneDrive is disabled or uninstalled?

I would like to point out, however, that I am cautious and that all my files are in documents, images, videos, music, in C:\users\my_name\Documents (or images, videos, music.... and that right-clicking on a folder still offers the option to "pin to quick access" but with the error message indicated above if confirmed.

All that's left for me is to hope that a future version of W11 will integrate this feature, which I find really convenient.

In any case, thank you for the info.

Best regards,

Ciboulette
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brucine Posted messages 24649 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 140
 

Hello,

OneDrive has the peculiarity of placing Documents and others in a specific folder (I believe OneDrive in the user account) instead of the default location, but it does not restore the initial situation when uninstalled.

With OneDrive present, Documents redirects to this OneDrive folder, which it no longer does when uninstalled, hence the error.

It seems to me that one must copy and paste the contents of these various OneDrive folders to their original location and then delete the contents of the OneDrive folder.

Windows 10 or 11 and their version have nothing to do with it by themselves.

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