Removing onedrive folder redirection in documents and pictures

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

The documents and pictures folder redirect to documents and pictures inside the onedrive folder instead of the actual pictures and documents folder of your userprofile.

When right clicking the pictures folder and going to properties I can change it's location at the location tab but then we will get a permission denied error when actually trying to apply the location. And even worse, the documents folder doesn't even have a location tab....

 

So after a long search and manually changing those folders is registry I found a way easier method to get rid of the onedrive folder redirection.

 

http://weblogs.asp.net/kennykerr/Known-Folders-Browser-1.0-_2800_for-Vista-and-Beyond_2900_

 

Just run above program as admin go to Profiles->Local Documents/Pictures-> Right click and choose change path->Select the actual Documents/Pictures folder inside C:/users/you/

 

And the documents/pictures folder are back to normal again and no longer integrated with onedrive

 

Removing onedrive itself can be done using the usual various methods known for windows 8.1

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

Here's a guide for removing quickacces from explorer: http://www.windowscentral.com/how-remove-quick-access-file-explorer-windows-10

 

 

And here's how I added my dropbox folder to This PC: http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.213