Windows 10: Copying from onedrive to external disk, requires more space from source.

i had 50gb left of space , i download a 30gb file from my onedrive to copy to my drive that has more than enough space, but i get an error telling me i need to free up 10gb of space , but it doesnt say where , im assuming its the disk that has 20gb left, the local one.

so onedrive is telling me , that everytime i download something, i need 2x disk space just so i can copy it? how do i fix this.

thank you.

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Copying takes more space than required

It also depends on the type of files you are trying to copy and the source drive format.

Files can be reported as to the byte size but 1 byte will use up an entire sector. If you have lots of small files in the source it can swallow up considerable more space in sectors than the amount needed for the files themselves. Specific filing systems
can be more efficient then the NTFS used on most hard disks.

Many years ago I could not fit Windows NT onto a disk slightly larger than the CD it was coming from, at the times it consisted of hundreds of small files and would run out of space before copy was complete.

Compressing the destination will stop that particular problem as would zipping the files into an archive.

 

Can't copy files from my local Onedrive folder to external drive...

Hi there,

When trying to copy files from my local Onedrive folder to an external drive I keep getting this error:

"There is not enough free space on Local Disk. You need an additional 261 GB to copy these files"

Anyone had this problem before? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

Error while copying data to external drive from OneDrive

I get this error message when copying from my OneDrive folder to an external drive, the external drive has plenty of free space.

i'm using 176gb of 1tb of my OneDrive space.





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