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Steel Contributor

Feb 08, 2019

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OneDrive taking up space on C drive

My OneDrive is taking up a lot of space on my C drive. I thought OneDrive was in the Cloud. Did I set it up wrong? Any tips or ideas on how to save space on my C drive when I am using OneDrive? Thank...

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VasilMichev
Feb 08, 2019
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

Bobapingu

Copper Contributor

Mar 22, 2021

Yeah, welcome to OneDrive. It's really weird. Microsoft showers us with platitudes ad nauseam over OneDrive yet they are totally crap at explaining what it really is. I use it purely as a backup and forget drive and interact with it as little as possible because it's just too hard.

peppo2022

Copper Contributor

Mar 20, 2022

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