One drive online files take space on Macbook

Anonymous
2019-12-16T05:50:07+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2020-06-23T17:23:26+00:00

    Here are the facts:

    1. There's 888GB of files on my 250GB HD
    2. There's 71GB free on my 25GB HD
    3. OneDrive is only taking up 16GB

    Please Microsoft... what the actual f**k is happening? 

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-24T00:54:00+00:00

    Microsoft haven't resolved this issue even though there're some updates after reporting the issue to them.

    Please resolve the issue asap..

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-24T14:09:00+00:00

    I am also having the same issue. This might be a macOS Catalina cloud drive recognition issue, but it would be great to have some clarification from Microsoft. 

    On a side note, does the fact that OneDrive is supposedly taking more space on the hard drive actually interfere with the normal function of the computer e.g. install new software, or SSD slowing down due to too much data? I'm curious to hear from your experiences.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-24T14:25:00+00:00

    Unfortunately the Mac believes it's disk is nearly fun and will not permit upgrades.I had to uninstall Onedrive, upgrade the software I needed to, and then reinstall OneDrive.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-06-24T15:32:42+00:00

    Unfortunately the Mac believes it's disk is nearly fun and will not permit upgrades.I had to uninstall Onedrive, upgrade the software I needed to, and then reinstall OneDrive.

    Interesting. When you click on the OneDrive folder and press get info, does it show OneDrive as only taking up a much smaller portion of your hard drive than Mac storage manager suggests?

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