Solved File Explorer crashing. Panicking I have broken my machine after migrating from Onedrive

Long story short, I'm starting college next year, so I wanted to get my machine under control. I'd been using Onedrive for decades despite hating it because it's just what my family had. I'm migrating to no cloud storage and just Backblaze for backup.

I started deleting Onedrrive and moving everything from the Onedrive folder to a folder in my C:\ dive. Strike one. I don't know why, I from my perspective had no system files in C:\OneDrive. It was documents. But as soon as I closed and reopened file explorer, whenever I would interact with ANY files on my system, yes even on my D:\ drive, file explorer would just crash.

The first thing I did was go to troubleshoot file Explorer but I can't because Get Help won't run. On the plus side my files seem fine and I've had no other OS issues.

Hello @Jellie and welcome to ElevenForum.


You are supposed to "unlink" your account an PC from OneDrive... first.]
Then you can remove one drive.






Maybe do a System Restore, back to before this problem occurred.
Then you can remove OneDrive properly.

Ghot said:

Hello @Jellie and welcome to ElevenForum.


You are supposed to "unlink" your account an PC from OneDrive... first.]
Then you can remove one drive.

Unlink Account and PC from OneDrive in Windows 11

This tutorial will you how to remove an account and unlink your PC from OneDrive for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. You can use OneDrive to sync files and folders between your computer and the cloud, so you can get to your files from anywhere - your computer, your mobile device, and...

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Uninstall and Reinstall OneDrive in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to uninstall or reinstall OneDrive for only your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. OneDrive is built-in to Windows 11 by default. With OneDrive, you can sync files and folders between your computer and the cloud, so you can get to your files from anywhere -...

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Maybe do a System Restore, back to before this problem occurred.
Then you can remove OneDrive properly.

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I have just done this. It says it failed to do a full restore but everything is fixed...? I'm dubiously optimistic and going to try not fiddle

Jellie said:

I have just done this. It says it failed to do a full restore but everything is fixed...? I'm dubiously optimistic and going to try not fiddle

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Those two tutorials will help you with OneDrive eradication.
Just read them carefully, take your time, and do the top one first.



If you decide you don't want to uninstall OneDrive... there's also a tutorial that shows you how to disable it.
You still have to do the top tutorial in post #2, first.