OneDrive for Business disk drive usage

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I am confused as to why the files I tranfer to OneDrive for Business continues to take up storage space on my local hard drive. I thought when I transferred a file to OneDrive for both syncing between devices the process also removed the file from my local drive to conserve space. Any sugesstions will help.

Thanks

Ron

deleted · Answer

Dear Ronald,&nbsp;in this case the files will stay. as far as i know the files will stay on the pc where they have been uploaded. And i am not sure if it is already possible to have keep remote on. if so you would see it on the other pc.&nbsp;kr,&nbsp;Paul

ian moran · Answer

Then what you need to do is disable ODFB sync and use the web interface to "move" local files to ODFB. The end result being your files are located in the cloud.

alexander forst-rakoczy · Answer

@Ronald M Jennings Sr wrote:I thought when I transferred a file to OneDrive for both syncing between devices the process also removed the file from my local drive to conserve space.&nbsp;(Emphasis added to your quote.)&nbsp;How should "syncing between devices" work if there were no files that you could sync?&nbsp;If you don't need to work offline (and thus don't have a need to synchronise files between your PC and the server) you could remove some of the folders from syncing. But then you'd have to access those files through the web interface.

ronald m jennings sr · Answer

Thank you Paul, I appreciate the response.

ronald m jennings sr · Answer

Hi Alexander, thank you for the response. The file is located on my local hard drive. I thought when I transfer the file from my hard drive to OneDrive that it would reside in the cloud and no loger take up space on my local drive.

Thank you

Ron

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