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Jason Drew
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May 29, 2018
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OneDrive for Mac OS temp files taking up a lot of space.

One of my users today noticed that OneDrive for Mac created a tmp file directory of over 15GB (see screenshot). My questions are: 1. Why are these files created and should they take up this much spa...
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    JonathanLeung
    May 30, 2018

    Hey Jason,

     

    1. These files should be of downloads that haven't completed yet. Once a file download has completed, it should be moved from the TMP folder to your actual OneDrive folder. If you don't have any pending downloads, then this is a bug.
    2. Yes these are safe to delete, but any pending downloads would be restarted.

    Can you grab logs from ~/Library/OneDrive/Logs and direct message me them?

     

    Thankyou!

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JonathanLeung
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May 30, 2018

Hey Jason,

 

  1. These files should be of downloads that haven't completed yet. Once a file download has completed, it should be moved from the TMP folder to your actual OneDrive folder. If you don't have any pending downloads, then this is a bug.
  2. Yes these are safe to delete, but any pending downloads would be restarted.

Can you grab logs from ~/Library/OneDrive/Logs and direct message me them?

 

Thankyou!

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wills1111
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Dec 04, 2020

JonathanLeung 

 

I'm having a similar problem, except with almost 4,000 files named "SyncDiagnostics-[number].log" taking up almost 6 GB in /Users/[myaccount]/Library/Logs/OneDrive/Personal

 

My OneDrive folder is on another drive and is fully synced—so these aren't temp files for something in progress.

 

Can I delete these or somehow free up the drive space?

 

Thanks,

 

William

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