Why does my Mac count One Drive files as part of its storage?

[Charizard007]

I've installed OneDrive and turned on Files On Demand.

But, even though the files are only stored online and not downloaded on my Mac, Mac storage still shows them as they were part of its storage.

Is it possible to stop this without having remove OneDrive?

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

Are you running Mojave and is your SSD set up with APFS?

 

[Charizard007]

Are you running Mojave and is your SSD set up with APFS?

Yes it is.

 

[chrfr]

Yes it is.

Did you choose the "free up space" option on specific files in your OneDrive folder? If you haven't done that the files may actually still be on your disk.

 

[Charizard007]

Did you choose the "free up space" option on specific files in your OneDrive folder? If you haven't done that the files may actually still be on your disk.

Yes.. the files are not on the disk, but Storage Management still treats them as such.

I will post a screenshot with before and after installing One Drive.
[doublepost=1551452083][/doublepost]Here are the before and after installing One Drive and syncing all the folders. As you can see on the second photo, it even makes then System Storage go crazy.. what the hell? And on the left, you can see the Documents basically occupying all the space, even though no One Drive files are actually on the disk.

 

[chabig]

Both of your pictures show that you have 236GB free out of 250GB.

 

[Charizard007]

Both of your pictures show that you have 236GB free out of 250GB.

Yes, esxactly.

Yet, the documents' green space occupies the entire disk and the system storage goes crazy.. it just keeps loading, forever.