Hi @kristinaleist,
You will want to follow this guide for downloading your Amazon Drive files:
odrive shouldn’t be trying to upload unless you are adding or modifying files in the Amazon Drive folder. Are you doing that?
You can prevent uploads by stopping automatic sync, in the odrive tray menu. Just keep in mind that this will stop all sync, except explicit downloads (no new remote activity will be shown, for example). If you are not making any changes to Amazon Drive, then this should be okay.