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Check Storage Available in OneDrive

Check Storage Available in OneDrive

UConn faculty, staff, and students can check storage usage through the OneDrive application or OneDrive Website.

1GB (gigabyte) is 1,000MB (megabytes), 1MB is 1,000KB (kilobyte)*. A typical Word document without pictures is less than 50KB.

*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.

Items in the Recycle Bin count against your storage quota. To remove an item from the Bin and permanently delete it, highlight it and choose “Delete” once more.

Find your largest files

October 2025 - The “Largest Files” page in OneDrive is not functioning properly intermittently. Please follow the section below if Largest Files does not display your files properly (ex. showing folders instead of large files).

  1. Navigate to s.uconn.edu/onedrive and sign in with your UConn email address and NetID password.

  2. Look in the bottom-left corner of the webpage to see your OneDrive storage usage.

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    If you do not see this metric, expand the left-hand Navigation pane by clicking on the button above the Home icon.

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Find your largest folders

Follow these steps to view the distribution of your storage across your OneDrive.

  1. Navigate to https://uconn-my.sharepoint.com/?p=22&setting=1 and sign in with your UConn email address and NetID password.

  2. Click on Storage Metrics.
    This page gives you a visual representation of how much data you have, and how it is distributed in your OneDrive.

  3. Click on a folder to view its metrics.

Check how much space OneDrive is occupying on your computer

Follow these steps to learn how much storage space OneDrive is occupying on your computer’s internal storage drive. This storage usage is composed of recently opened OneDrive files and files/folders that you chose to “Always keep on this device”.

  1. 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.

     

  2. In the popup window, select the Account tab.

  3. 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.

Reducing OneDrive Storage Usage

Please visit https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/27519090763 to learn more.

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