Why is OneDrive hogging space on my Surface?

[Windows Central Question]

I have OneDrive as a folder on my Surface and it is using up most of my storage?

 

[ygtgngr]

I have OneDrive as a folder on my Surface and it is using up most of my storage?

You probably have "offline available" files. If you don't want to reach them while you're offline just turn that future off OneDrive will not take that much space then.

 

[Jas00555]

How much do you have stored in OneDrive? Remember that the placeholder files take up room too.

 

[noobchief]

Just make online-only all the files

 

[Jas00555]

Just make online-only all the files

But even if s/he does that, the placeholder files can still take up a lot of room.