OneNote allocates absurd amount of disk space, then deallocates after few minutes

Copper Contributor

Hey all,

Recently, whenever OneNote was open, I was getting messages that my disk space is full. And in fact it was, as file explorer could confirm. So I decided to check out what the cause might be only to find out that a few minutes later, 50+GB was freed from my SSD again. But then a few hours later, the problem pursued. This has been going on for the entire week.

Now I checked the Apps section in the Windows 10 settings and saw that OneNote was using nearly 70GB of disk storage for seemingly no reason. 

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I might have a large OneNote page open, but this is just absurd. Is there any fix to this? I'm worried that OneNote is going to read/write way too much on my SSD and make it wear down. Not to mention the fact that it makes installing or even running other software impossible...

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