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
    2021-12-13T14:26:59+00:00

    I will give this a try since it sounds like it has worked for others. Thank you for the feedback!

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-21T19:17:14+00:00

    I have the same issue. I have a Mac Mini with a measly 256gb storage. My onedrive for Personal and Work are consuming my precious space even though I have Files on Demand enabled.

    macOS: Monterey 12.1

    OneDrive: installed from MS Office install, not App Store, Version: 21.245.1128.0002 (Standalone)

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-10T14:18:49+00:00

    Im noticing the same thing, except to take it one step further my one drive syncs to an external drive.

    My macHD shwos 126gb of 512free

    The 1TB External shows 815gb of 1TB free.

    285GB on the macHD are taken up by SYSTEM stuff. If i "free up space on the external" the macHD

    It seems like the macOS and onedrive are not communicating properly with whats actually being used, as I dont believe the storage is actually full, though if you get to a point where you dont have enough space it wont let you install document.

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