I have a MacBook Pro M1 Max with a 1TB SSD, and it’s starting to get full. I ran a disk space analyzer to get an idea of what I could delete. I found what appears to be two OneDrive repositories on my local SSD and want to know if it’s safe to delete one, and if so, which one. I have three different OneDrive accounts (Personal, Business, Client). 

In /Users/{my name}/Library/CloudStorage are three folders with the OneDrive icon in place of the standard Apple folder icon. They all of “Last Modified” dates of yesterday. I assume these are my current files.

But I also found three hidden folders in /Users/{my name}/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T3XXXX.OneDriveStandaloneSuite/OneDrive – {accountname}.noindex. The three of them show “Last Modified” dates from 2021,2022, and 2023 respectively. Together they take up 38GBs worth of space. Are these remnants of an old version of OneDrive or something like that? Can I delete them to reclaim the space?

I’m hesitant to touch them because as a test I created a new folder name ‘zzzzz’ in the OneDrive folder that opens when the OneDrive icon in Finder’s sidebar is clicked. The new folder is created in both folders (the one under ‘Group Contains’ and the one under ‘CloudStorage.’ Do I have two instances of OneDrive running, each updating a different local repository?

Any insight into the situation would be great. Thanks!

​I have a MacBook Pro M1 Max with a 1TB SSD, and it’s starting to get full. I ran a disk space analyzer to get an idea of what I could delete. I found what appears to be two OneDrive repositories on my local SSD and want to know if it’s safe to delete one, and if so, which one. I have three different OneDrive accounts (Personal, Business, Client).  In /Users/{my name}/Library/CloudStorage are three folders with the OneDrive icon in place of the standard Apple folder icon. They all of “Last Modified” dates of yesterday. I assume these are my current files. But I also found three hidden folders in /Users/{my name}/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T3XXXX.OneDriveStandaloneSuite/OneDrive – {accountname}.noindex. The three of them show “Last Modified” dates from 2021,2022, and 2023 respectively. Together they take up 38GBs worth of space. Are these remnants of an old version of OneDrive or something like that? Can I delete them to reclaim the space? I’m hesitant to touch them because as a test I created a new folder name ‘zzzzz’ in the OneDrive folder that opens when the OneDrive icon in Finder’s sidebar is clicked. The new folder is created in both folders (the one under ‘Group Contains’ and the one under ‘CloudStorage.’ Do I have two instances of OneDrive running, each updating a different local repository? Any insight into the situation would be great. Thanks!  Read More

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