Why Is My OneDrive Full?

❎ OneDrive tries to make it easy to back up important folders, but at the cost of making some things very confusing.

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The “folder backup” feature creates duplicate Document, Desktop, and Pictures folder within your OneDrive folder and copies the original folder contents into them. If you had more than five gigabytes of files to begin with, this could immediately exceed your free OneDrive capacity. The simplest solution is to turn the feature off and make sure to back up your entire machine some other way — as you should already be doing.

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0:00 OneDrive Full
0:46 OneDrive folder backup
1:36 Managing the OneDrive backup feature
3:04 Documents vs Documents
5:35 Things can automatically move
6:00 Size limits
6:47 Move some files
7:51 Opt out
9:33 Avoid OneDrive folder backup completely
10:53 Back up some other way

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