How to remove an old project/folder from OneDrive

Some users will use OneDrive to sync folders from a project to their local machine. These users at some point will want to remove this from their machine to keep their OneDrive from getting too cluttered.

Unfortunately, if you just try to delete it from OneDrive, you'll also delete the files from the site that you'd synced! To avoid this, please follow these instructions for removing something you no longer need from OneDrive:

• Click on your OneDrive icon in your system tray (the small blue cloud)
• Click on the gear icon in the upper-right of the OneDrive tray window and select Settings.
  
  

  

  
  

• Select Account from the list on the left.

  
  

  

  
  
• Locate the folder you want to remove in the list of folders being synced and click Stop sync.
  
  

  

  
  
• Click Stop sync again to confirm.
• Click the X to close out of the OneDrive settings.
• In File Explorer, navigate to your OneDrive folders (listed under TCC) and click on the folder you'd stopped syncing.
  
  

  

  
  
• In the file pane to the right, confirm that the Status column no longer has any icons. This is to confirm that OneDrive is no longer syncing and is safe to delete.
  
  

  

  
  

• Once the Status column is empty for all folders you are now safe to delete the folder from your OneDrive on the left

  
  

  NOTE: If the folder you synced has many files/subfolders, it can take a long time for it to go through and complete the disabling of the sync. Do not the folders until the Status column is empty, or you risk removing data from the SharePoint/Team site!