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I have One Drive installed on my MacBook.
When right-click on the One Drive icon in my Finder and click “get info” it says under size:
172.298.589.945 bytes (39,5 GB on disk) for 57.162 items.
So the way I interpret this is that only 39,5 GB should take space on my Macbook disk. Which is in line with the documents I store offline on my mac (some pictures and music)
However, when I look at the actual disk space used (I click apple icon on home screen, click “about this mac” and then under Storage tab it shows me that my stored documents use 178,4GB. And with that my Mac storage is almost full.
I have no other documents on my Mac, I keep everything in One Drive or ICloud. Icloud is totally online, no files are offline. And One Drive I have only a few files offline.
So why does it seem to take all my storage nevertheless?
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It is actually simple, if you want to install something that is too big like an update.
Best user experience ever!
I cannot install the MacOS update because of this OneDrive issue.
MacOS update tells me I don't have space and the reason is that OneDrive takes all the magical space from my hardrive.
This issue was opened 1 year ago when are you going to look into this?
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DropBox has had this same issue and they finally solved it with a setting change through their webportal. One drive will need to do the same thing. Somehow Finder does not correctly interpret the file sizes. With the DB fix, now I cant see the filesize online prior to downloading. DB must have figured that this would then be a workaround for Finder. C'mon Microsoft, fix this please.
I've been experiencing this same issue and my MacBook keeps telling me that my system disc is almost full even though I have 37GB of data set to "on demand"?
Even checking disc space in TERMINAL still shows the disk is almost 99% full !!!