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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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could you expand on this? what exactly did you do? I have done what you said but it still shows all the files taking up space on my Mac. I have used the 'free-up space' on all my folders, so nothing should be on my harddrive but it is still there.
Hi,
I just solved the problem in a different way.
I had similar issues, specifically out of all the folders in the 'one-drive' root, I only had one subfolder of 200MB synced. However, the root folder took up 17GB. I didn't find any reason for this, but even though I copied the files inside the drive folder normaly and then freed space for all except that folder by selecting them (multiple selection and clicking free-up space), it kept them on disk and set only the cloud icon.
I now selected all the folders in root and did free-up space again. So far 13GB have been freed and counting.
Seems like a bug in the "Free up space' routine.
Best,
Florian
Aha! Great info, thanks. So basically the folder themselves take up space too.
Hi,
I just solved the problem in a different way.
I had similar issues, specifically out of all the folders in the 'one-drive' root, I only had one subfolder of 200MB synced. However, the root folder took up 17GB. I didn't find any reason for this, but even though I copied the files inside the drive folder normaly and then freed space for all except that folder by selecting them (multiple selection and clicking free-up space), it kept them on disk and set only the cloud icon.
I now selected all the folders in root and did free-up space again. So far 13GB have been freed and counting.
Seems like a bug in the "Free up space' routine.
Best,
Florian
Hi.
- I'm glad you found a solution.
- Macintosh HD - Data is not (usually) because of a failed install. It's a result of a Catalina install and will be there normally. It's where all of a user's data is stored - system files are on the other partition. Deleting MHD - Data might fix the OneDrive problem, and it may be necessary, and it MAY cause a problem of deleting all other files.
You are correct. In my case the install failed because there was not enough space on the hard drive. Normally the Catalina install also shouldn't cause the new volume to suck up all the space. You are right about the other files. I should have mentioned that you absolutely have to do a backup before you delete the volume.
Hi.