OneDrive

[wobbie]

I'm scratching my head with this .....

I have Microsoft/Office 365 that gives me 1TB OneDrive storage.

I have a 512GB SSD as my C:\ drive, as well as a 2TB storage.

I have 43GB free space on C:\

I have a OneDrive folder in C:\users\...etc

I would like to use the 1TB OneDrive for bulk storage, & I copied about 40GB into my OneDrive folder.

C:\ then said that it was full!! I then deleted that file

So then I dropped the large file\folder into my OneDrive on the web, & it obviously showed up in my OneDrive folder in C:\

My question is if my OneDrive storage is dependent on how much spare space I have on my C:\Drive? & how can I use most of the 1TB storage?

 

[Sagax]

One way to do it is to copy/move some files into the local Onedrive folder (not the whole 40GB), then select them all and right click on them. Choose "Free up space" in the popup menu that appears (in the Onedrive section, usually 3/4 down the list) and the files will be synchronized with the cloud version and then removed from your local disk. (you will see the cloud symbol change when the files are online only) Then copy the next batch of files and do the same as previously.
That way you can systematically move the 40GB of files over to the cloud storage without filling up the c: drive.

The online versions of the files will still show on your local drive but it will be links only and won't use up space locally. Only files that you open or select "Always keep on this device" will be downloaded to local disk.

 

[wobbie]

Thanks so much, I think/hope I've got it!
I have a couple of files that show cloud status, & others show ticks.
There is a file a file that I used to try out, a 2.7GB zip file.
When I tell it to 'Free up space', a little bar appears & it seems to be working.
When it is done, there is a tick in the status column, not a cloud..

So if I have a pdf with a cloud status, & I open it, it obviously has downloaded. & is now 'ticked'. Would I have to re-upload it?

 

[Sagax]

Yes, if the file has been downloaded again you will have to reset the "cloud only" status of it.
I'm not sure why the big file would behave that way, apart from that it might take a little longer to process in the background due to its size or that there are numerous operations running at that moment on Onedrive and that it is queued for processing when the other operations have completed.

You can read up more on the limitations of Onedrive at this link

 

[wobbie]

Thanks for the help. It's going to be very useful to me, now that I know how it all works.