Using File History with Intermittent Connection on Laptop

I sometimes go a day or 2 without turning on my laptop or having an external USB connected. As a result, if i used the new windows 10 File History backup, windows starts backing up everything to %APPDATA%, so I end up with a giant bloat of copies of my own stuff. File History I think is limited to backing up every 12 hours or something at most

Is there any way of getting File History not to do this and just wait until I attach the USB drive?

That would defeat the purpose of file history, with file hystory you can revert back to a previous copy of e.g. a deleted or wrongly mofified document; i do not think that anyway it creates more than one copy for each unique file, as a mitigation you can set it to backup once a day.

HTH.

Good point.