UConn faculty, staff, and students have 5TB of storage on their UConn OneDrive for Business accounts. You can check your storage usage through the OneDrive application or OneDrive Website.
Through UConn, all users have 5TB of storage available to them.
1TB (terabyte) is 1,000GB (gigabytes)*. 1GB is 1,000MB (megabytes)*.
*Depending on the computer system, the values 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
Open OneDrive
Windows: by clicking the OneDrive cloud icon on the right side of your taskbar.
macOS: clicking on the OneDrive cloud icon in the top menu bar. Click the Settings gear icon to open the settings window.
In the popup window, select the Account tab.
In the Account tab you will see the amount of storage used by OneDrive on your local computer. This is telling you how much of your OneDrive is physically on your computer and taking up space.
Checking overall account usage
Following this section will tell you how much of your OneDrive quota (5TB) you are using. This will not tell you how much is on your computer vs. online-only.
Navigate to https://uconn-my.sharepoint.com/ and sign in with your UConn email address and NetID password.
Click the Settings gear icon in the top right, and click OneDrive Settings.
On the page that opens, click the More Settings tab on the left.
Select Storage Metrics from the list of links.
A new tab will open with your storage metrics. Your used and available storage is displayed on the top right.
