Microsoft’s cloud storage solution OneDrive is one of the widely used cloud storage services out there. Although it offers a few GBs of free storage (5 GB as of writing this article), most users use the paid storage, which comes with Microsoft Office 365 subscription.
While it is best to buy additional storage space when your OneDrive account is running out of free space, you might want to find large files so that you can check and delete files that you no longer need.
Of course, you can manually open every folder and sort files by size to view large files. But it can easily take hours, if not days, when you have TBs of files! Unfortunately, OneDrive web does not offer a command to search only files larger than a specific size.
However, OneDrive does offer an easy solution to view large files. In this guide, we will see how to view large files in OneDrive.
Method 1 of 3
Search for large files in OneDrive
Step 1: Sign in to your OneDrive account in a web browser.
Step 2: Click on the gear/settings icon (refer to the picture below) and then click Options.
Step 3: In the left pane, make sure that the Manage Storage is selected.
Step 4: Now, on the right side, in the Storage Summary section, click on the “What’s taking up space?” link to view large files in descending order.
To view the size of a file, right-click on it, click View to open the details pane, and then scroll down the details pane to see the file’s actual size.
If you would like to view the actual location of a file, perform a right-click on it and then click the Open file location option.
Method 2 of 3
Another way to view large files quickly in OneDrive
Step 2: Once you have signed in, click on this OneDrive link to view large files. The page sorts files by size and shows them in descending order.
Method 3 of 3
Search for large OneDrive files in Windows File Explorer
If you are syncing OneDrive files to your Windows PC, you can use the File Explorer search filters to find large files quickly. Here is how.
Step 1: Open the File Explorer and navigate to the root folder of the OneDrive.
Step 2: Now, in the search field, type size:>500MB to search for all files that are larger than 500 MB. Obviously, you can replace the number 500 with a number of your choice.
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