After starting OD again, it began processing, then gave me a warning that I'd recently deleted around 40K files, and asked me whether to Delete from everywhere or Restore them. To avoid downloading 160GB, I quit OneDrive, deleted everything in the OneDrive folder, then copied the contents from Archive back into it. I recently upgraded to Monterey, so perhaps there have been too many changes at once, and it needs more space overhead to process them? May need to just wipe TM and start again. My TM drive doesn't have a lot of spare space left, but there should be 100GB or so. As far as I can see, this shouldn't be the case. I started investigating all this after Time Machine backups kept failing with 'out of space' messages. So it seems like the files are stored within the GC folder, and the CloudStorage ones merely link to them.Ĭonfusingly, DaisyDisk represents the linked files in CS as if they are actually on the disk, making them appear to be duplicates. When I logged back in to the OneDrive account and marked folders to keep local, the GC folder started increasing in size (it was initially around 160GB, but only 30MB 'on disk').

And following the reset, there were obviously no files in CloudStorage. The Group Container folder was deleted at the first step of the reset command, with the files themselves moved to a OneDrive folder with -Archived appended to the name. I suspected this may be the case, as I had since reset OneDrive and the space used on my SSD remained exactly the same. Seems silly we have to do two steps now instead of one.Ĭlick to expand.Thanks for confirming. To make it download, you have to either open the file or click the cloud icon. So the OneDrive folder (what they're calling the 'sync root') shows the little underlined down arrow icon next to the folder or file indicating it's always available (offline) because it's in that hidden cache on your Mac, but it still shows the cloud icon because it hasn't been 'downloaded' to the OneDrive folder from the hidden cache yet. The difference now is that when you tell OneDrive to always keep a folder or file on your computer, it's downloading it to a hidden cache on your Mac (NOT the ~/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive folder, which is what the alias folder named OneDrive in your home folder links to). When you first sign into OneDrive, it's not really downloading all your files, but rather links to all your files in the cloud that can be downloaded on-demand if you open them.

Well the first part you said has always been the case AFAIK.

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