It will take up space and duplicate data on your drive to be able to keep the cloud drive up tp date. Yes, it does. Your files are stored on something not on thin air. Disconnect from your network and if you still can use the files in your One. Drive folder, then they take up space on your own computer’s hard drive as well.
Do one drive files store on my computer?
No, all your files are stored on the both side if you are using One. Drive: our local machine and the One, and drive online. Only the local files under “This PC” will take up the storage of your computer.
In the post above, you could know the One. Drive files are all stored in the C drive and also, you’ve learnt how to disable the synchronization between the One. Drive cloud and your personal computer. In the second half of the post, I’ve introduced third-party software to free up C drive space by transferring One. Drive files to another drive.
Actually, you have 3 files. One is in original folder on your computer, one is under Onedrive folder on your computer and one is in Onedrive. This starts choking the computer after sometime as you have 2 files on your computer and you start running out of space.
Is it necessary to use OneDrive?
If you are happy and conformable with saving your files locally or using different cloud storage services, then it’s not necessary to use One, and drive. You can unlink your Microsoft account and even uninstall One. Drive from your PC. Unlinking or uninstalling One. Drive will not delete your files.
Can I backup my files to OneDrive in the cloud?
By default, yes. You would have a One. Drive folder on your computer and whatever you drop into that folder will be synced up to One. Drive in the cloud. But there are settings within One. Drive such as “Files On Demand” that allow you to backup to One. Drive in the cloud then delete the locally stored files.