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pbot
Copper Contributor
Jul 01, 2025

OneDrive personal logs filling up hard drive

I received a low disc space alert on my pc, and to my surprise, had 0% remaining. After some exploring, I found a folder: Users/UserName/AppData/Local/Microsoft/OneDrive/Logs/Personal Which was abou...
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NikolinoDE
Platinum Contributor
Jul 02, 2025

This issue usually stems from:

  1. Sync Errors or Loops – OneDrive constantly trying and failing to sync (even if nothing's visibly syncing)
  2. Debug Logging Stuck On – OneDrive gets into a high-verbosity logging mode unintentionally
  3. Permissions or corrupted configuration – leading to sync engine failing to complete operations and logging excessively

 

Fixes you can try…

Reset OneDrive Completely

Press Win + R → paste: %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe /reset  à Enter

 

Disable Personal OneDrive if not used

 

Install the Latest OneDrive Version