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UConn faculty, staff, and students have 5TB 25TB of storage on their UConn OneDrive for Business accountsSharePoint sites. You can check your storage usage through the OneDrive application or OneDrive SharePoint Website.

Through UConn, all users have 5TB of storage available to them.Every site has 25TB of available storage. But how much space is this really?

1TB (terabyte) is 1,000GB (gigabytes)* . and 1GB is 1,000MB (megabytes)*.

For reference: a standard 4-page Word document, without any pictures, is less than .05MB, and you have 25,000,000MB available.

*Depending on the computer system, the values above are expressed as either 1,000 or 1,024. This does not affect your usage of OneDrive or your computer.

Check how much space OneDrive is occupying on your computer

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Open OneDrive

  1. Windows: by clicking the OneDrive cloud icon on the right side of your taskbar.

  2. macOS: clicking on the OneDrive cloud icon in the top menu bar. Click the Settings gear icon to open the settings window.

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In the popup window, select the Account tab.

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SharePoint or your computer.

Checking overall account usage

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Following this section will tell you how much of your OneDrive SharePoint quota (5TB25TB) you are using. This will not tell you how much is on your computer vs. online-only.

  1. Navigate to https://uconn-my.sharepoint.com/ and sign in with your UConn email address and NetID password.

  2. Click on your SharePoint site.

  3. Click on the Settings settings gear icon in the top-right , corner and then click OneDrive Settings.

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    On the page that opens, click the More Settings tab on the left.on Site usage.

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  4. Select Storage Metrics from the list of links.

  5. A new tab will open with your storage metrics. Your used and available storage is displayed on the top right.

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