OneDrive duplication costing me 80GB in wasted space


  1. akstirling
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    OneDrive duplication costing me 80GB in wasted space


    Hi ....... when installing W10 on my desktop I came unstuck as I could not unravel the local storage VS cloud storage

    conundrum inherent in OneDrive.... it was some time back and, as far as I can recall was partially successful in my attempt to rid

    my PC of the app, inasmuch as the OneDrive icon/folder does not appear in the left-hand menu in Explorer ....it has taken up

    residence @ C:\users\myusername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive ..... it contains a clone of the files on my Desktop/in my

    Documents folder..... combined total 80GB, which I'd love to consign to the Recycle Bin ..... any suggestions (I recall trying the

    expedient of simply deleting the offending folder, result I destroyed my OS install, though fortunately I keep an image of my

    system).......???? Alan D Kerr
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  3. Jacee
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    Turn off onedrive Turn off, disable, or uninstall OneDrive - Office Support
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  4. Samuria
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    Are you sure its taking all that room? Normally it stores everything in the cloud and only has pointers to files on the hd which it will download when needed
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