❌ OneDrive's backup function is broken. I'll explain why and what to do about it. ❌ OneDrive Backup? No thanks The “Manage folder backup” option in OneDrive moves the contents of your Documents (and Desktop and Pictures) folder into the OneDrive folder. This can cause you to exceed your OneDrive storage limits. Turning the feature off isn’t enough to undo the damage. Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/156972 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub ✅ Watch next ▶ Half a Dozen Uses for OneDrive ▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSy5GjjheqU Chapters 0:00 OneDrive Backup Problem 0:38 What it's doing 1:30 What happens to your documents 3:00 Finding your documents folders 5:15 The cloud 8:10 Enabling OneDrive backup 11:30 OneDrive moves Documents 13:10 Data limits 15:00 Turn off backup 16:00 Where are your documents? 17:20 Putting everything back 18:20 The short explanation 21:00 Recommendation ❤️ 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