Will uninstalling Google Drive delete my files

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Steps to Delete Your Google Drive Stored Files on Your PC without Affecting the Files Stored on the Web
Now You are OK to Delete the Google Drive Stored Files on Your PC
How to Keep Some Files On Google Drive on PC and Delete Others Without Affecting the Web Stored Files?
What happens when you delete from Google Drive?
Will deleting Google Drive app delete data?
What happens if I uninstall Google Drive from my phone?

If you’re not a fan of the Google Drive app, you’ll want to delete it. Here’s how to completely delete Google Drive from Windows.

First, launch Google Drive if it’s not already running. Then right-click the Google Drive icon on the Taskbar and select Preferences.

The Google Drive Preferences window comes up. Click the “Disconnect account” button and then click Yes to verify you want to disconnect it.

After a few seconds, the account will be disconnected, and you’ll see the following verification message. Click OK.

Now you can go into Control Panel >> Programs and Features and uninstall Google Drive.

Or, to verify it’s completely gone from your system, use the free or pro version of Revo Uninstaller. This is one of the tools I use to uninstall any software, including malware from Windows PCs completely.

You can also download the free version of Revo Uninstaller via Ninite.com. Here I am using the pro version of Revo Uninstaller – which has a free 30-day trial.

Right-click the Google Drive icon and select Uninstall. Now, wait while Google Drive is uninstalled and the remaining registry settings are found to be deleted.

Verify you want to uninstall the product.

Check all of the Blue entries of leftovers of the program Revo Uninstaller finds and delete them.

You still have you’re the Google folder in your My Documents; you can still access the files while not online but will no longer have the ability to sync.

If you are using Google Drive Back up and Sync on your PC, you might have asked the question how to delete files on Google Drive on My PC that without affecting the web stored files. This’s because syncing is essential when we use cloud storage services and it’s part of almost all cloud storage providers. You may have also synced your files. What happens to it when you delete the files from your PC? It’ll also vanish, if you are careless.

Recently I have written an article that shows how to encrypt and protect your cloud stored files. I am happy to know that it was useful for many of you from your email responses. But do you know there are some minor things that users do not take care while using cloud services? There are certain things that you must take care to save your data stored on the cloud.

If you are using Google Drive on your PC, you may have stored lots of images or other files to it already. Do you notice one thing that when you delete one file / files / folder / folders on your Google Drive folder on your computer, it automatically get deleted from the Google Drive web application / services too? Yes it happens! It happens with all cloud storage services in syncing mode.

So if you don’t want this to happen with your Google Drive, just remove the syncing. This is the answer to your question how to delete files on Google Drive on my PC without affecting the web stored files.

Before deleting the Google Drive stored files on your Computer for any reason, you must remove the syncing first. Other wise you will loss your files stored on the web too. Here we can see how to remove the syncing of Google Drive.

Steps to Delete Your Google Drive Stored Files on Your PC without Affecting the Files Stored on the Web

Step 1: Click the Google Drive icon, now it’s called “Back up and Sync”, on the taskbar on your computer and select Preferences from the settings.

Step 2: Uncheck the box next to Sync My Drive to this computer.

Step 3: Click OK to Apply changes.

Now You are OK to Delete the Google Drive Stored Files on Your PC

Now you can delete all the files stored on the Google Drive folder on your Computer without affecting the files stored on on the Web.

Next time if you think to sync your Google Drive again with your desktop, my suggestion is remove the Google Drive app completely from your PC. Then again download and install it and sync.

You can also consider to re sync from settings, preferences and again enable the “Sync My Drive to this computer”. This will also work.

Important Update on 13.09.2017

The Google Drive app got lots of changes since my above tutorial on Feb’2013. But between I made some modifications to the above tutorial. But I think I should add some more to this as per the latest Google Drive capabilities. See it below.

How to Keep Some Files On Google Drive on PC and Delete Others Without Affecting the Web Stored Files?

The above method is to remove Google Drive from your PC without affecting the web stored files. But now if you want to keep the Google Drive on your PC and delete only few files, there are other method.

Now you have more control over the files you delete from your computer on Google Drive!

Steps:

Go to preferences from the settings as detailed in the first part of this tutorial above. Screenshot also given above.

Now look for an option “removing items”.

There are three options.

Remove items every where
Don’t remove items every where
Ask me before deleting items every where.

The second option, i.e., “Don’t remove items every where” will do our job.

That’s all.

What happens when you delete from Google Drive?

To remove a file from your Drive, you can put it in your trash. The file will stay in your trash for 30 days before being automatically deleted. If you're the owner of the file, others can view it until you permanently delete the file. If you're not the owner, others can see the file even if you empty your trash.

Will deleting Google Drive app delete data?

The answer is No. Clearing app data from your android phone settings just sort of resets the app to its clean install form i.e. all your settings etc. would be reset.

What happens if I uninstall Google Drive from my phone?

The beauty of Google Drive is cloud storage i.e. files stored on the cloud. This means that files can be accessed via Android, PC, Chromebook etc. If you delete your Google Drive app on your mobile, your files will still be accessible via a PC or Chromebook using a browser.