Lilys Dad

— Updated 29 Sept 2024 —

Following our Microsoft support ticket, we have found that this issue appears to be solved with the September 2024 patches.

With the Sept 2024 update applied to a device, when performing an Autopilot Reset, OneDrive now appears to setup itself up correctly.

Will grab OneDrive client versions for reference when I do some more testing

— Original Post —

Kudos to Liam Robinson who seems the be the first person who wrote an article on this particular bug. Without people like you sir we are either lost in the wilderness or reliant on Microsoft support.

The Background

As part of the testing with Autopilot and Intune, we performed a test reset on a device. Not an issue, done this a few times in the past few months, nothing to worry about.

When the device came back on and picked up our OneDrive auto-config policies it started to sync OneDrive data. Nothing out of the ordinary here, that’s normal behaviour. But wait… As the content sync’d onto the device, it started to eat up diskspace. Like a lot. In fact the entire content size of what I have in OneDrive. Hmmmm.. Odd

Double checked settings.. Files on Demand is enabled so its not missing that. OK, off to Google we go (other search engines are available)

Now enter Liam. The first result we find is his post titled “July 2024 OneDrive Client Disk Space Bug + Workaround/Fix“.

So we went to check the version of Windows 11 – and yup, its got the August Windows 11 22H3 monthly update. Check OneDrive, and its a newer version of 24.156.0072.xxxx. OK lets try another device, and yup same disk space issue occurred.

How To Fix

And again, massive kudos to Liam who posted details on how to fix this. Following the steps on the blog we have a workaround should we find affected users.

Check Liam’s post here for the details.

Whats Microsoft Saying?

From Liam’s post, its been acknowledged as a bug, but there’s no announcement as yet.