Hi @jim.peterson.2,
“Unsync”, as you’ve seen, will remove the local copies of your files, but only if they have been safely uploaded to your cloud storage. This is a way to manage disk space and give you the ability to access “unlimited” storage on a finite disk, like the one on your local computer. You can read more about unsync here:
We also have an informative blog post on our sync engine, including unsync, here:
odrive will only unsync your files (remove the local copies) if you choose “unsync” or you have set auto unsync rules. Uninstalling odrive will not unsync your files.
In terms of stopping odrive, you can stop any background syncing, at a global level, from the odrive tray menu at the top under “Ready to sync new changes”. This will prevent automatic/background syncing until started again. This will not stop manual downloads or expands of placeholder files, however, so you can still pull data down, if you like, while this is set.