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TKruger
May 20, 2020Copper Contributor
"Free up space" not working MacOS
I am running OneDrive on a Mac (Catalina 10.15.3). I have some large files that I have chosen to "Free up Space". In the Finder they have the cloud icon next to the file name indicating that they...
ronaldpoi
Oct 29, 2020Copper Contributor
I've been dealing with this BUT if you notice, while my folder is supposed to be 104Gb... it really only takes 249Mb on disk.
I BELIEVE this is due to the way that macOS handles files and space on disk. I'm not an expert, but I think we may be blaming OneDrive for no reason. It's probably working as expected.
FernandoPerez
Oct 29, 2020Copper Contributor
ronaldpoi Hi! Thank you for your reply. I have this certanty at the past, but something went wrong with my "Other" in the disk space management - it increased day by day. As I can do a reinstall of the MacOs any time, I did it two days ago, and free up about 80Gb of my disk. And OneDrive is at the bench until I come back to rely on it.