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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
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
VasilMichev
Still confused. I have a lot of crucial data on my PC 😧 drive. I tried to put into the OneDrive cloud as a backup and to be able to access it from elsewhere. It ended up putting a lot of it, but not all, on my C: drive, who knows why. I now have two versions of some of the data. This poses a serious dilemma. It doesn't seem to sync but I'm afraid that if I delete the C: drive version, it will also delete the critical 😧 drive version. I just don't understand OneDrive at all. It promises so much but delivers a hotchpotch. Can someone please explain it in plain English, not computer jargon?Bobapingu I have the same dilemma and it sucks that Microsoft's developer's never thought this through properly. I have now a heck of a job sorting out my data because of this.
I moved all files to d drive - it re-created again in my profile on c-drive I tried deleting all online after downloading to a new HHD directory separate to OneDrive, then separately moved all the new c-drive files to the HDD directory so as to compare the files, delete the copies not needed and compare and then delete the unwanted copy, this with the intent that I can then reorganize back to the cloud as I want, but no this doesn't work either. now I have multiple versions etc snd still apparent or phantom copies are being created without my direction. Not only that but now all my mailmerged files are screwed up because of the change in locations (loads of work now there to do to correct that - not happy) also because I have had to continue generating documents, and work on files etc in the meantime I now don't know exactly where my latest version of good files are, and by opening up other files to see if they are the version I want it compounds the issue further
This is disasterous - shame on you Microsoft. yo should not b in control of my data to my detrimenmt and that is the case
It is similar with Icloud and Dropbox because of the sync process and the way the preority thinking has been done by the programmers
when I eventually get a resolve I will post trhe safe method
Hi,my onedrive is taking up storage and I selected my files but it didn't work,do I delete the files? Or do I wait
Bobapingu I am in the same boat. I would like OneDrive to mirror my C: drive and serve as a backup, instead I think I also have two or three versions of the same data. Also, every time I change anything in a file, OneDrive immediately begins to process the changes. This is great for small files, but when I am working with >1GB rasters is ESRI ArcMap OneDrive consumes my college-budget internet.
Essentially, I would like to decrease the storage OneDrive is consuming on my C: drive without losing all of the data. Is this possible?
Brandon4121
I feel your pain. OneDrive appears to be a poorly thought through concept intended to push everyone onto cloud storage. That meant someone else holds all your private and intellectual property. Despite all the security safeguards, when you die, who gets to own your IP? Your next of kin? No, they won't know where to find it if they even know it exists. Possession is nine tenths of the law and Microsoft possesses it. Adobe and others are doing the same thing with photographic IP.
I have a lot of photographic data and private correspondence that I keep on an internal 😧 drive. This gets backed up on an internal E: drive and the E: drive is mirrored onto an external X: drive. I thought I could simplify matters by using OneDrive, exactly as you thought. Not so! I found I had the same data in triplicate on OneDrive, the C: and 😧 drives and never sure which was the latest. In frustration, I checked every file for age, deleted the older files and kept the latest on 😧 drive. So effectively I'm now happily out of OneDrive. I must say, this was my third failed attempt to use OneDrive. I may still be paying for the 1TB of storage that I never used. That still needs to be checked.I don't have the answer. I wish you luck. If you come up with an effective solution, please let me know.
It is also possible to move the library to another (larger) local drive, if you have one.
Jeff_Parker Excellent, at last! Didn't used to be able to move it. Idiotic from Microsoft to assume it would be on a System Drive.
Hi VasilMichev
I was able to change the settings so the files are not stored locally, however, once you click on a file in File Explorer, then it downloads locally. Is there a way to stop the downloading when you click on the file or is the only way with the right-click then View Online?
If you simply click it, without opening the file, it should not be downloaded. If it does download it, it means you have some additional software messing things up - check every "scanner" type of application you have, as well as every application that has added entries to the right-click menu, applications that generate file previews/templates, etc.
Yes, the files only download locally if I double-click them. So then if I no longer want them locally I have to right-click "Free Up Space"? I am just curious as we are going to have several users that will share and edit files out of a Team OneDrive and I don't want a bunch of local copies on each users C drive.
