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Storage full on PC filled with Sharepoint files
mrbellybell Hello,
I believe that this is happening because of OneDrive sync, from SharePoint Online to your local machine.
If you are using Windows 10, please look at the bottom right corner of your taskbar and see if you can find the OneDrive logo. Right click on it and select settings. On the tab "Account", you should be able to see how much data you have synced and be able to disable the sync.
Yours sincerely,
Aref Halmstrand
Why do microsoft call it a shortcut when it takes up disk space? A shortcut is 1k but a sharepoint shortcut can be hundreds of GBs.... its bizarre
It will take up your disk space, only if you are downloading local copies of all files in library. If your sync is setup with 'Files on demand' feature turned on, it will not take much space in your local disk.