☑️ What OneDrive does with your files can be both frustrating and confusing. I'll walk through two important aspects: what's really on your computer, or not, and the impact of using OneDrive's horrid backup "feature". ☑️ Your OneDrive files OneDrive files can live in different places and perhaps be only partly downloaded. They might be on your PC, online only, or completely hidden. OneDrive’s backup “feature” complicates things by moving files without telling you. Remember, if your file’s somewhere within OneDrive, check online. Everything should be there. Updates, related links, and more discussion: 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: ✅ Watch next ▶ The Problem With OneDrive Backup ▶ Chapters 0:00 Where Are My OneDrive Files? 0:50 Understanding Basic OneDrive 1:30 Finding your OneDrive files 2:50 online 4:30 Space saving feature 5:15 Three states 5:30 Online only is the cloud icon 6:25 On this device icon 7:10 Always available icon 8:00 Backup issues 8:55 Controlling the status of files 10:25 Changing the state of folders 12:25 The backup feature 20:40 Where are your OneDrive files? ❤️ My best articles: ❤️ My Most Important Article: More Ask Leo! ☑️ to get your questions answered ☑️ to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ for even more! #askleo #onedrive #files