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Ronald M Jennings Sr
Aug 08, 2016Copper Contributor
OneDrive for Business disk drive usage
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 betwee...
Ronald M Jennings Sr
Aug 15, 2016Copper Contributor
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
Ian Moran
Aug 17, 2016Iron Contributor
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.
- Ronald M Jennings SrAug 21, 2016Copper Contributor
Thanks Ian, this makes the most sense for me to do.
- Aug 20, 2016There's often little need to sync your entire OneDrive, just pick the folders you need. I tend to only sync a working set of folders to any device..