Onedrive Files on Demand & Profile sizes

[synaesthesia]

One of OneDrive FoD's most annoying "features" (thanks, microsoft!) is how Windows perceives file sizes for the downloaded placeholders. So, when a sharepoint library or Onedrive account "syncs", placeholders are put in the users' local profile areas. Not a problem, however the file size also shows true. This causes a lovely irritancy of seeing things like 1TB of data on your 120GB SSD, however the actual problem is manipulating those files. Deleting a profile takes an AGE as a result, and Delprof just either fails or the computer gets shut down before it ever gets a chance to finish; particularly on a shared PC which might have multiple users who have all "synced" a terabyte of data.

Has anyone else noticed this behaviour or found a way around it? It's not the end of the world for the majority of staff on their laptops as it's only them using it, but on shared devices, drives are actually filling up because delprof doesn't work.

[psydii]

Make sure Storage Sense is enabled. It dehydrates the files as needed. We don't really bother with profile deletion. Occasionally we need to intervene by hand to clear up some space, but mostly 'it just works' (across 10 suites).

[synaesthesia]

Make sure Storage Sense is enabled. It dehydrates the files as needed. We don't really bother with profile deletion. Occasionally we need to intervene by hand to clear up some space, but mostly 'it just works' (across 10 suites).

 

Aha, that's very likely the one thing that's missing! Many thanks