Windows 10: My documents file on my PC hard drive is missing. Only the documents section on OneDrive is...

My documents file on my PC hard drive is missing. Only the documents section on OneDrive is present. Where did the files on my PC hard drive go?

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Need Documents folder of This PC to stay away from OneDrive Documents folder

I need Documents folder of This PC to stay away from OneDrive Documents folder.

In other words, OneDrive>Documents should open my OneDrive's Documents folder and This PC's Documents should open This PC's Documents folder, not the OneDrive's Documents folder. This PC's Document folder
should not be linked to OneDrive's Documents folder.

File Explorer has few sections: Quick Access, OneDrive, This PC.

I need OneDrive and This PC to stay separately. Otherwise having 2 sections One Drive and This PC loses sense.

Anything saved should be in This PC, while only things specifically saved to OneDrive should be saved there.
Right now it is a mess. When I click on Documents in This PC, it opens the OneDrive's Document folder. This PC is This PC, after all.

Is there a simple solution for this problem?

 

OneDrive and two PCs Documents Folder

Hello, I have an older Dell All-inOne PC running windows 10. I keep most of my files in the - This PC\ Documents folder. I started using oneDrive to backup my Documents folder. I think when I set this up I just copied the This PC\Documents folder to OnDrive so I now have OneDrive\Documents. I always work on the local Documents folder and periodically get any new files to OneDrive\Documents as a backup.

I recently got a new Lenovo laptop. After logging on the first time I realized that my OneDrive files could be seen/accessed from the new Lenovo. But now on the new Lenovo I see that my local Documents (This PC\Documents) seem to be populated with all the OneDrive\documents files. I'm not sure how they got to my local hard drive (This PC\Documents). Are OneDrive files automatically copied to my local Documents folder? Thanks - Brad

 

New windows 11 PC copied a onedrive folder to documents folder on hard drive

I purchased a new windows 11 PC. Once it started up, I noticed that the "this PC / Documents" folder on hard drive had been populated with data from one of my onedrive folders. I have folders named A, B, and C on onedrive. When new PC started up, it had taken the contents of folder A (possibly because it was first alphabetically?) and placed all the contents from that folder into the "documents" folder on the hard drive. I also noticed that when I look at my "onedrive personal" from this new PC, there is a folder on it called "documents" that I never created (my folders on onedrive were named A, B, and C).. When I look at onedrive from any of my other PC's, this folder is called A. ,

How do I clear out the "documents" folder on the hard drive but keep the contents of folder A on onedrive with the correct name of A instead of "documents". It seems that when I started up this new PC it thought it needed to populate the hard drive "documents" with something from onedrive, and randomly (or alphabetically) selected the folder named A on onedrive.