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Your initial reply provided directions for using OneDrive to share photos across devices. I politely replied and explained that's not what I'm trying to do. Now you're giving me advice on the more appropriate app OneDrive vs.

Again, I'm not trying to synch photos across devices, so that's not relevant to my problem. In other words, I'm treating OneDrive as an archive, not as platform for viewing or sharing photos. Next you advise me that I should seek assistance in the iTunes forum and offer a link. That's very frustrating because it suggests you're not carefully reading my posts. As I explained in my original message, I have posted in the iTunes forum.

I'd written: " I understand that the underlying problem is with iTunes' malicious behavior [ I appreciate that's a problem for Apple, not MS. However, am asking if there's an option in Windows' security settings to block an app installed on my PC from accessing documents in my OneDrive folders without permission. That is something that a person in an MS forum could potentially address.

Is there someone else who can assist me? Someone who can better understand my problem? What happens if you press "Cancel download"? As far as I can tell, OneDrive does not have an option to cancel downloads.

When I click on the OneDrive icon in my taskbar, the only option I'm presented with is to "pause" downloads. If I click on that, OneDrive tells me it will resume downloading at such-and-such time.

If there is a way to cancel, I'd appreciate it if someone points it out to me. What I end up doing is waiting for all of the files to finish downloading, then right-click the "pictures" folder and select "free up space" to remove the local copies. One other point I'd like to clarify: Greg seems to be conflating iTunes with iCloud. There may be some interoperability between the two, but they are in fact separate apps.

My problem is with iTunes, the media player. My problem has nothing to do with iCloud or syncing files across devices.

Why would a media player that doesn't even have a photo viewing option be obsessed with downloading photos from an unlinked OneDrive folder? As far as I know, the only photos that should be associated with iTunes are album artwork. I would understand if iTunes were trying to force album artwork to download because it needs a local copy, but those aren't the photos that it's downloading. Album artwork is stored in the various subfolders of my "music" library, not my "pictures" folder.

Again, the pictures iTunes is downloading are archived photos I took with digital cameras 20 years ago. Bottom line, I don't want to sync these photos to any device -- I just want to store them in the OneDrive cloud. Current Visibility: Visible to all users. Hi Knox, Just checking in to see if the information was helpful. I'm not seeing an option to automatically have files sync.

Make sure the parent folder is selected here. Comment Show 0. Related Questions. When I go to delete it will not allow me to delete. Why does Runtime Broker download all my always online files from OneDrive? Deleting data from endpoints that sync SPOL library. Migrate folder redirection to OneDrive for Business. Skip to main content. When you use an online storage provider such as OneDrive to store online-only files, some Windows apps might download these files automatically.

For example, a music player app such as Windows Media Player might download your online-only music files to play them. When an app downloads online-only files, you'll get a notification that shows where it's downloading them from and how many it's downloading, as well as the download progress.

Do nothing, or dismiss the notification. If the download is expected and all's well, let the notification go away on its own after the download completes.

Or, select the arrow in the upper right of the notification to move it to action center. Cancel the download. To put the brakes on a download that's already started, select Cancel download , then select Cancel download again to confirm.

Block the app.