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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?
A Microsoft file hosting and synchronization service.
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I have the same issue. I have two user accounts. Each of them have one drive enabled and roughly the same size. Only a small amount is available on the local disk.
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My other mac session also has another ondrive account with similar size hence the 288GB on Other Users.
I have upgraded my OS to Big Sur (Version 11.6) and have One Drive version 21.170.0822.0003 (standalone) installed.
I am finding that the file and online & local drive sizes are reporting correctly.
I am not sure if Microsoft or Apple have now fixed the problem.
Anyone else having success with this combination ?
My workplace also had access to dropbox, which does not have this issue, so i moved there a year ago.
Now that my company is dropping dropbox, I was hoping this might have been resolved by now.
Thanks for your suggestion but I actually do not have any apps on my laptop beside MS Office and the free version of Adobe Acrobat. I still have not found a solution to this :(
I'm not sure if this will help any of you out but I was having the same issues with Dropbox and One Drive. I thought both were taking up most of my HD space even though I had all my files set to online only. I have a brand new iMac that has 256 HD and storage was saying that 116gb were being taken up by "other". I am a graphic designer and use photoshop every day. I then quit photoshop and watched that 116 go all the way down to 27gb. photoshop was using my HD as a scratch disk. I am now going to get a TB external and set that as the scratch disk for PS. voila!
not sure if any of you are also using PS but this took care of the problem for me. there is still 23gb being taken up by "other" but I can live with that.