OneDrive Taking up space on C: even when nothing is being kept on device.
Recently got a new device and had all my files on the previous device synced to my OneDrive. The C drive has about 120 GB of my data (including OS) but when I check my Disk space, I only have 5GB remaining out of 256. However, OneDrive seems to be taking about 150 GB on the disk even though all the files have the cloud icons on it.
OneDrive is soooooooooooooooooooooo slow!
Why is OneDrive for Business so unacceptably slow? I've had a case open with Microsoft Support since February and to date they have involved several different teams, run numerous diagnostics and tests remotely on my computer, but still haven't been able to improve let alone resolve the very poor download speeds we are getting across the company. They can see the issue with their own eyes, and the under-performing tests are appearing in their diagnostic logs, but for whatever reason they cannot fix their own systems! We have a fibre-optic leased line, 100Mbit over a 1Gbit bearer. Running a speed test, I am getting the full 100Mbit up and down, and yet when I am downloading a file (whether it's a few MB or a few hundred MB) from OneDrive, the download rate hovers between 500Kb/s and 800Kb/s. Uploading the OneDrive for Business is fine - the upload rate is between 7Mb/s and 9Mb/s. It's just the download rate that's the issue. Whenever any of our users save anything to OneDrive and the document is no longer cached, they have to wait for what feels like an eternity for the file to be downloaded before it can be opened. If they're opening the file via an application, then that application will hang and stop responding until the file has been downloaded from their OneDrive. Before we switched to Microsoft 365, we hosted everything locally. Anything we tried to open would do so almost instantly. But using OneDrive feels like we have travelled back in time to the days of 56K/ISDN. If this is how OneDrive has been designed, then it should not be labelled as a business service. There are other solutions out there from competitors that outperform OneDrive, and unfortunately if these issues are not resolved soon, I doubt we will be the only business who migrates away from OneDrive or even Microsoft altogether.
OneDrive file blue in progress icon meaning?
I uploaded some videos to my OneDrive Photos section, but they don't show up under Photos. It shows up under Files -> Photos with a blue in progress icon next to it. This didn't happen a month ago, and I couldn't figure out what the icon meant. At first, I thought it was syncing, but it's been 11 hours, and it's still there. Any ideas? thanksOnedrive Web search : "Location" column always shows "My Files" for folders path
reproducible bug in the OneDrive web search results Summary: the "Location" column systematically displays "My Files" for folders, regardless of their actual location in the directory tree. This does not affect files — files correctly display their real path in the same column. Expected behavior: The "Location" column should display the actual parent path of the folder (e.g. My Files > Subfolder A > Subfolder B ...). Actual behavior: The "Location" column displays "My Files" for every folder result, regardless of where the folder actually sits in the hierarchy. Note: The same search correctly shows the real path for files inside those same folders. The issue is exclusive to folder-type results. Environment: Account type: Personal Reproducible: Yes, 100% consistently Impact: This makes it impossible to disambiguate between folders with the same name located in different parts of the tree when using search. Please let me know if additional information or screenshots would help. Thank you.
OneDrive changing dates
I have an S24 ultra with pictures dating back to 2001 till the current day. I have thousands of family photos that I was able to gather and organize, and wanted them to be synced with OneDrive so I can access them on my PC and my phone. I decided to get OneDrive to be able to upload ALL of my gallery to OneDrive however, I noticed that around 80% of everything getting uploaded has its dates changed to the time it was uploaded, while a handful remains accurate. I made sure it wasn't the way I was viewing the folder and files, and checked the properties/info of the files and saw that all the dates and data were changed. Is there any way to fix this or prevent this from happening?
OneDrive on MacOS Eating Up Huge Amounts of Storage
Hardware: M3 Max MacBook Pro 14" (14 Core CPU/30 Core GPU, 36GB, 1TB) Software: MacOS 26.4 OneDrive Version: 26.002.0105 (Mac App Store version) I use OneDrive to sync files between my PC (primarily used for gaming) and my MacBook Pro (pretty much everything else) mostly because I'm paying for Office 365. I've noticed in the MacOS storage storage section of settings, there's something taking up ~170 GB of storage. Digging around, I found the culprit: Library>Cloud Storage>OneDrive is currently sucking up ~143GB of storage. It seems like OneDrive is keeping large numbers of files stores locally. Legitimately have no idea why this is the way it is, or how to solve the issue (or if there is even a resolution). Like, why bother with files on demand when the application is going to store half the files locally, anyway?
