Onedrive says I have 4GB of storage... But I count 2GB.. Why???


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I have files backed up in Onedrive in a folder called 'Personal' which is 4.7GB in size. In that folder also sits 'Documents' folder which is a backup of 'My Documents' folder. It's 4GB in size.

But when I manually count the size, I get 2GB in 'Documents'. I dont get it. Can someone explain this??

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You are adding up File sizes rather than cluster/block size(size on Disk).
e.g. say a 1 KB Notepad file will take up 4 KB on the drive, assuming 4 KB cluster/block size.
So, a large number of smaller files will take up a larger size on disk.
 

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By default, OneDrive automatically switches to Online Only, thus it takes less space on the disk.
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TairikuOkami said:
Code: 
https://onedrive.live.com/?ocid=cmmfqa4dpsq&v=managestorage
You can get additional 10GB for free by creating 20 referral accounts.
You can create 1-2 accounts per day without a phone number.
Click to expand...

Microsoft discontinued that service last year.
 

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