The local OneDrive folder, the PC Documents folder, OneDrive backup and sync. How does it work and what is happening to me?

[Adhiti Raman Thothathri]

I was recently trying to clear some space on my work laptop. I realized I wasn't really using the OneDrive folders on my sidebar so without really understanding what I was doing I unsynced it. It didn't really clear any space (I didn't expect it to since as far as I knew, I hadn't actually saved anything on there). I clicked on Documents on my PC and saw that about 2/3rds of my files and folders were missing! After panicking for a good while, I went and looked at my OneDrive folder online. Some of my missing files were there online but not all of them. I re-synced OneDrive and went to the docu

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