Onedrive Setting

Hi Folks, this is what is happening now and my only solution is at present, to leave it as it is, and hope the wheels don't fall off.
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Onedrive Problem.

I have always had Onedrive on D:drive on all my computers. That allowed me to copy items to the 'Desktop' where I could do what was needed, then move to somewhere to save it or just put it in the Recycle Bin.
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I copied the Onedrive files to an external USB HDD on both computers keeping a note of when it was done. Giving me 4 copies plus the one in the Cloud.
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The first thing I noticed in 'Settings' was:- image No. 1

I clicked the link and something started but there was no way to stop it. That was when I noticed:- image No.2

These are my Onedrive folder, but did not want the 'Desktop' to be included so I did:- image No.3

This gave me:- image No.4

Notice the little 'Ticks' bottom left on each.

The one way I could remove the ticks was to close Onedrive but this was not what I wanted,
so I did a 'Recovery' but it never rectified the situation as I still get the result of image No.1
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Your suggestion gave me this:-
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NMI said:

And you don't want to back up your Documents folder?

Correct. I don't need to back up empty folders.