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OneDrive for Mac OS temp files taking up a lot of space.
One of my users today noticed that OneDrive for Mac created a tmp file directory of over 15GB (see screenshot). My questions are:
1. Why are these files created and should they take up this much space?
2. Are these files safe to delete?
Thanks for the help.
Hey Jason,
- These files should be of downloads that haven't completed yet. Once a file download has completed, it should be moved from the TMP folder to your actual OneDrive folder. If you don't have any pending downloads, then this is a bug.
- Yes these are safe to delete, but any pending downloads would be restarted.
Can you grab logs from ~/Library/OneDrive/Logs and direct message me them?
Thankyou!
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- JonathanLeung
Microsoft
Hey Jason,
- These files should be of downloads that haven't completed yet. Once a file download has completed, it should be moved from the TMP folder to your actual OneDrive folder. If you don't have any pending downloads, then this is a bug.
- Yes these are safe to delete, but any pending downloads would be restarted.
Can you grab logs from ~/Library/OneDrive/Logs and direct message me them?
Thankyou!
I'm having a similar problem, except with almost 4,000 files named "SyncDiagnostics-[number].log" taking up almost 6 GB in /Users/[myaccount]/Library/Logs/OneDrive/Personal
My OneDrive folder is on another drive and is fully synced—so these aren't temp files for something in progress.
Can I delete these or somehow free up the drive space?
Thanks,
William
I am having a similar problem: files in the TMP folder just don't delete after the copying has finished and thus the folder grows and grows... Best, Max
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