Hard-delete the contents of a folder shortcut when unmounted

Supported on: Supported Windows 10 0 TH 1

Registry

HKLM SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive

Value name: AddedFolderHardDeleteOnUnmount

Enabled: AddedFolderHardDeleteOnUnmount = 1

Disabled: AddedFolderHardDeleteOnUnmount = 0

Description

This setting determines the behavior of the Sync client when it encounters a request to unmount a folder shortcut (a folder added to OneDrive via "Add shortcut to OneDrive"). If you enable this setting, when an unmount of a folder shortcut is received, the Sync client will hard-delete all the contents of the folder. If you disable or do not configure this setting, Sync will by default move the contents of the unmounted folder to the recycle bin.