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Obviously it is not Mozilla's fault that Microsoft is being sneaky. BUT, with Windows 11, a look at Properties admits its 'physical' location is actually 'C:\Users\\OneDrive\Desktop! Also, under OS (C:) exists Users, containing a name, with a OneDrive folder within it, and Desktop within that, my intended local FFox download folder within that.

However, within 'This PC' also exists 'Desktop', containing the folders I see on my monitor/desktop, including a new folder I created there, as one always could before, called 'FFox download' to try to use it to save downloads locally, ie without sending the actual download (and/or a copy of same) to the cloud. which is my Local Disk per Type-clearly hardware, not cloudland). And there is no warning that the desired location has been altered to send it to Microsoft and the cloud, not the hard drive in my office.ĭetails: When I look via Start File Explorer, 'This PC' contains 'OS(C:)'. And it is NOT possible to edit the text in the 'Save files to' to remove the 'OneDrive' path within the Mozilla box. , and Select Folder 'Desktop' and then a folder I have newly created on my Desktop, the name is changed to "C:\Users\\OneDrive\Desktop\FFox downloads". I have shared a PowerShell script in an old post to download all documents from a user’s OneDrive, we can use the same pnp Powershell to download documents from a document library.I am trying to get rid of OneDrive on my newly purchased Windows 11 Dell computer - because it is a fact that Microsoft has no idea how to assure security of my stuff (see yesterday's zero-day vulnerabilities in Excel, eg).īUT when I go to Mozilla/Settings/Files/Downloads/ Save files to, Browse. There is another alternate way to download all files from a SharePoint document library using PowerSheel. Download SharePoint Document library Documents using This is the easiest way to download document from SharePointĭocument library or from a folder. Button to stop from syncing that document library
