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Whether to nuke local OneDrive copies. As you know from

“Putting Files onto OneDrive”, Windows generally copies your
online OneDrive files onto your PC so they’re available even when
you’re not online. But that, of course, eats up a lot of disk space.

The OneDrive pop-up menu tells Windows to auto-delete local

OneDrive files (the copies on your PC) that you haven’t touched in
awhile. This feature never affects the online OneDrive copies (nor
files on any other synced machines).

Free up space now. Storage Space usually kicks in automatically,
in the background, when you’re not doing much on your PC. But if

you need space right now, you can hit “Clean now” to run it on the
spot. (It’s still governed by the what-and-when settings on this
screen.)

What’s Eating Up Your Disk

As you can see in Figure 17-1, there’s a handy “how full is my disk” graph
at the top of the → → System → Storage screen.

Below that, you get a breakdown of the kinds of files filling your hard

drives: pictures, videos, music, documents, and so on. Then you can select
one of those graphs to drill down even further. Eventually, you burrow all
the way to a details screen that lets you inspect the underlying storage-

occupiers.