Solved OneDrive/Windows 10 Question?

[Nick]

My laptop's account is my Microsoft account, therefore I can access my OneDrive from Windows explorer. When I look at what's using all of my hard drive's space with WizTree, it shows that my "OneDrive folder" is using it all up. Is that implying that my OneDrive files are stored on my physical laptop hard drive? I thought it was a Microsoft server.

 

[veeg]

Hello Nick

Hopefully some of our members will chime in soon.
@jmarket @gus @Rustys @phillpower2

 

[jmarket]

OneDrive stores data locally on the hard drive as well as the cloud. That's just how it works It's called redundancy, so should files be lost on the local hard drive that are available on the cloud, it'll redownload it to the hard drive so it's available.

 

[Nick]

OneDrive stores data locally on the hard drive as well as the cloud. That's just how it works It's called redundancy, so should files be lost on the local hard drive that are available on the cloud, it'll redownload it to the hard drive so it's available.

That's kind of silly... is there a way to disable that?

 

[gus]

Hi Nick, set the options in onedrive to "Not Sync" that will only keep a copy in the cloud. Be warned that is not a great idea for important data though....

 

[Nick]

Hi Nick, set the options in onedrive to "Not Sync" that will only keep a copy in the cloud. Be warned that is not a great idea for important data though....

I don't keep anything important on my OneDrive. Thank you!

 

[Nick]

Set the options in onedrive to "Not Sync" that will only keep a copy in the cloud.

I'm looking for this option right now. I can't find it... where would I find it???

 

[veeg]

@jmarket

 

[gus]

Hi Nick, I'm away at the moment on a machine without one drive. From memory right click the gear icon on the taskbar. Hope that helps..

 

[Nick]

I can't find any OneDrive settings in Windows 10 control panel or settings, and there's nothing on onedrive.com's settings... would this article be of any use? https://techjourney.net/disable-or-uninstall-onedrive-completely-in-windows-10/

 

[gus]

Gday Nick, if there's an one drive icon in your notification area try clicking on it? Sorry but not near a machine with one drive atm..

Scroll down the page in this link
https://www.howtogeek.com/199099/save-drive-space-by-offloading-local-files-to-the-cloud/

 

[veeg]

Any updates for us?

 

[Nick]

Thanks, Gus...

• Click the OneDrive icon in the notification area and right click it. Click settings

• Go to the "account" tab and click "choose folders"

• Unselect the folders that you want to be online-only and off of your hard drive