Phone Link and CrossDevice folder

[Windows 11]

I had phone link installed for quite some time now and I was using it just so I could send text messages from my PC instead of using the phone's keyboard... Thats all...To my surprise today, I see the CrossDevice folder in my user profile, and it was exceeding 340Gb, so I checked it and it had all my phone's data, photos, videos etc!I wasn't asked from the app if I wanted the app to "sync" my phone's data to my PC and I didn't want all my photos to be occupying all this disk space in my PC.So, I hit SHIFT-DELETE on the CrossDevice folder on my PC and I then realized that the stupid thing also

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