Originally Posted by
jsnydcsa
Great ideas. Thanks.
I'm going to
1) Have him leave his laptop on overnight, connected to internet, to continue to sync between laptop and OneDrive.
2) Download everything from OneDrive via my laptop connection to his OneDrive to my computer.
3) Give the abovementioned utility a try to try and shut down OneDrive (and, as part of the process) bring his One Drive files back to his computer
4) Upload a false dummy file to his OneDrive to keep it "full" and maybe prevent him from doing this - by trickery, sorcery, accident, or otherwise - in the future.
Any other thoughts appreciated.
Will advise.
I haven't tried uninstalling Onedrive (so if you have a spare system you can use as a guinea pig) I'd try uninstalling it (you don't need a specialized app to do this, it is listed in the apps list). It may have some unintended consequences in conjunction with the other office apps. Another thing you can try is to disable it from loading (go into the task manager, switch to startup tab and disable Onedrive from there). It would show up in the system still, just not loaded. You would need to periodically check to confirm it's not running, but that's something I do every few months just to make sure nothing unexpected installed as well.