"Microsoft is getting more aggressive about tying its flagship productivity products to its cloud services. In the most recent release of Windows 11, version 25H2, the OneDrive Backup feature is turned on automatically when you sign in with a Microsoft account on a new PC; as a result, some of the most common data folders in your user profile -- Documents, Pictures, and Desktop -- are moved out of their normal location and into OneDrive."
"Previously, if you turned off OneDrive Backup, you had to find your orphaned files and manually move them back to the folders in your local profile. Thanks to the recent change, turning off OneDrive Backup on your PC now includes the option to automatically move those files back to where they should be. Of course, Microsoft hasn't bothered to inform its customers of these changes."
"Microsoft automatically turns on OneDrive Backup in new Windows 11 installations. Your files aren't stolen -- they've just been moved to a new folder and synced to the cloud. A recent, undocumented change lets you turn off OneDrive Backup and move files back to your local folders. I've just spent an entire day installing, uninstalling, and resetting Windows 11 on an assortment of test machines so that I could understand what's going on."
OneDrive Backup is enabled automatically in Windows 11 version 25H2 when signing in with a Microsoft account on a new PC. Documents, Pictures, and Desktop folders are moved from their normal local locations into OneDrive cloud storage. Local copies are not deleted, but the relocated folders can be hard to find without understanding OneDrive integration. A recent undocumented change adds an option to automatically move files back to local profile folders when OneDrive Backup is turned off. Previously, users had to locate orphaned files and manually move them back. Microsoft did not announce these implementation changes.
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