Accidentally activated OneDrive - would like to restore all files back to my hard drive and delete/deactivate OneDrive

[Caitlin323]

Hi, I activated OneDrive on my work laptop and immediately regretted it. Initially paused the sync but realized some files were no longer local and some were so decided it was best to allow it to finish with its transfer and go from there. All files synced to One Drive and I can see them in my File Explorer. Then, I went into "Manage Back up" and turned off all folders. Then, I copied all of the files from One Drive and pasted them into their respective folders on my local drive. Apparently this is not the best way to do things according to the email I then received from Microsoft Support. The

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