When you sync one drive that time you can choose another drive instead of C: drive. One drive is a cloud storage but when you sync it on your system it will consume local storage but there is option that you mention which files you don’t need to sync.
Usually, the hard drive space is occupied by system files, installed apps or personal files, backups, virus or other malware, or other unknown files. How can we know what files take up the hard drive space most? Here is a tutorial for how to see what’s taking up space on hard drive in Windows 10.
Yes, a local installation of One Drive will require space for both the software (85 MB on my Win 10 PC) as well as the size of your ‘in-synchronization’ files. So it does use up precious space on your SSD, but it also automates the process of synchronization.
Why does OneDrive take up so much space on my computer?
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. What’s the most entertaining farm game?
Another thing we asked ourselves was; why does my OneDrive say disk full?
One way to think about this is the practice makes it easy to fill-up the One. Drive space and you might get the “disk full” error from the cloud service. Unlike Google Drive, the storage quota on One. Drive works differently.
Thanks for your feedback. If you have turned on the Files On-Demand feature, you could unlink One. Drive (click One. Drive icon on the ribbon-> More-> Preferences-> Account-> Unlink ) then delete the sync folder, to see the result whether those files take up local space.
What are the advantages of using OneDrive?
You can get to your files from any device. You can share photos, videos, and other files with others by sending them a link instead of trying to email a big file. It can save storage space on your computer.