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OneDrive taking up space on C drive
You might want to read up on it a bit. Assuming you are using recent W10 version, you can configure Files on demand: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-onedrive-files-on-demand-in-windows-0e6860d3-d9f3-4971-b321-7092438fb38e?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
I am a former Network Administrator and Onedrive still drives me bonkers.
It is taking up most of my space on my C drive. I wanted to temporarily backup Onedrive from the C drive to a thumbdrive because I am going to move onedrive to a larger hard drive, and I do not trust that Microsoft will loose my data somewhere in the process. The problem is when I backup the data from C drive to the thumbdrive, instead of copying the data from C drive, Onedrive wants to download the data from the cloud. With the nearly 1 terrabyte of data I have stored there, it is going to take 40 hours to download and use up my monthly allotted amount of data I can download from my internet provider. I am trying to figure out why it is trying to download it from the cloud if I am copying it from my local C drive. If I turn off the network and try to copy it from the C drive, it tells me that an unknown error has occurred. Then when I move onedrive to another drive, it is going to try and download the 1 terrabyte of data again. What a truly stupid system.
Wow, I was surprised to see many disgrantled users of One Drive, I thought I was the only one. Why doesn't Microsoft address these issues?
1. I found documents on One Cloud that I could care less about (auto safe I guess...?)
2. Docs That I wanted saved are not there
3. One drive sucking up C drive memory, thought I clicked stop using internal memory on the options
4. I always forced to desktop the saving of some docs and when I realized they went to a one drive desktop (why is that existing..?) I tried to copy them unto the real C desktop but the folders would be empty.How can I tranfer them when I see them in one drive but then only the folder shows empty on C? thanks for the help Bobapingu
Yeah, so many things bug me about Microsoft, Please don't get me started. I even received my MCSE and a few other certifications from them back in the 90's and early 2000's, and I still fight with their over bloated Windows that does not always work right. For example, my search, cortana, news, DTS, and a few other Microsoft apps always stop working at random times on all my computers. Anyway, I finally got my onedrive moved to another drive but never made a backup to a USB. I was frustrated with Microsoft again and needed a place to voice my displeasure. Thanks for the response.
Same issues here. OneDrive is garbage. Impossible to comprehend, replicates files on any drive you happen to have, and the worst part of it is that it can only sync files on the C:\ drive! So if you (like me and most others with relatively recent computers) have a limited space SSD for your C drive, then you are out of luck.
I spent a few hours on the phone with Microsoft support in the last two days, and they came up with the same answer: "Sorry Bub! That's the way we designed it". So I'm uninstalling OneDrive and buying a subscription to Google Drive.
tkendall1 Sorry to hear of your woes. I don't understand why any one has any trouble with OneDrive. It is a sensational product that works extremely well. You can easily store the OneDrive folders on another drive - I do this and it is well documented how it can be done. A simple Google search will show you how.
