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"Free up space" not working MacOS
I have solved the problem by doing the following:
Navigate to OneDrive Preferences on your Mac -> Account -> Choose Folders
Then uncheck the folders which you only want to store in OneDrive. Please see the attached screenshots.
Nice work-arround, but that solution doesn't solve this issue of "Free up space"...this way I can't search the files locally because they disappear if I unselect the folder to sync.
Hope that MS solve this big bug soon.
pedroferreira I think what you'll find is that although the files appear on the list when you look at "Storage" they don't actually take up space on your computer if you've used the "Free up space" action on OneDrive.
When I used the workaround described above it didn't free up anymore space on my HD....Finder still showed the same amount available.
- I noticed that it moves the files into trash (even though the files also still exist on onedrive). After emptying trash, all the space became available.
Even though that onedrive folder was set to 'free up space' my mac was warning me that I was running out of disk space. Unchecking the folder like TKruger mentioned fixed the problem but only after I emptied my trash.
I've decided to put all large files I don't need to access often in a single folder that is now not visible to my macbook.
