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
    2021-11-09T16:33:26+00:00

    Following up on this, as I've recently obtained a new machine running Monterey.

    I'm dangerously close to filling my OneDrive for Business capacity at 935GB of 1024GB.

    I downloaded the OneDrive app, and it immediately began syncing the entire OneDrive (935GB!) without asking what specifically I'd like to sync. After about 15 minutes, everything has been synced to the machine with Files on Demand feature enabled.

    Looking at the System Information screen from Manage Storage, I can see that the On Demand files are no longer registering in the Manage Storage area.

    So, the issue we were dealing with back on page 7ish seems to have been resolved from what I can tell.

    I'm still angry that I had to sync 100,000s of 0k files before being able to tell the application to not sync those folders! An issue for another ticket.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-11-09T15:07:41+00:00

    I’m still crazy shocked that no one from Microsoft has ever bothered to address this issue or at the very least drop a message on this thread.

    Utterly shocking.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-11-09T15:06:30+00:00

    Thanks for confirming.

    I will install one drive and test and report back.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-11-09T05:37:42+00:00

    I have the same issue reported above is on M1 CPU with Monterey

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-11-08T15:43:14+00:00

    Hope everyone is doing well.

    I was experiencing this issue since I installed one drive in 2019. Due to this I turned off the feature and had to live with the broken feature.

    It was on Catalina. I held off updating to Big Sur due to a personal preferences at the time and now Monterey is out.

    I have got a new M1 Pro today which comes pre installed with Monterey and I’m looking forward to using the newer OS and silicone.

    I will install one drive on this and see if the files on demand works correctly as it should. Fingers crossed if it worked for you on Big Sur.

    Anyone else got any updates with one driving being fixed on Big Sur/Monterey?

    This has going on for a long time and would be good to close this up finally!

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