OneDrive taking up too much space on iPhone

[IHAVEAQUESTION]

Well, I am not sure where this belongs to but since it has something to do with MS product and services I thought to post here. Mod, feel free to move to other forum if appropriate.

Currently, I have OneDrive auto upload iPhone Camera Rolls, which means every picture I take gets uploaded to OneDrive automatically. Which is great until I found out that OneDrive creates a folder to store these pictures...and the folder itself now stands at 20GB in size and growing. Well, my iPhone has 64GB of storage and it's running out very quickly. I wonder if there is a way to still auto upload pics to OneDrive, BUT, without it taking space on my iphone? I do notice that OneDrive seems to compress the file on iPhone, when I check the folder size on my desktop (yes, it's synced with OneDrive too), it shows 60GB. Anyway, I just want OneDrive to be a depository for photos...and synchronizer for all other files (doc, excel, pdf...etc). Is there a way to do it?

 

[IHAVEAQUESTION]

In fact, i feel like OneDrive on iPhone should just mirror what's on the cloud instead of using the local storage, so in theory, it should only take very minimal space. Am I wrong in my assumption?

 

[mikeymikec]

It kinda goes against the principle of services like OneDrive, Dropbox, etc to work like that, and it seems to me that the way they work (record to local storage in a specific folder, then the client handles uploading it in a timely manner) is nicely compatible with the nature of mobile devices (ie. not always having Internet access). Furthermore it makes a lot of sense to allow the user access to files that haven't necessarily been successfully uploaded yet (rather then those files hanging in a non-accessible limbo until the transaction is complete).

However, I think the Windows OneDrive client allows the user to specify folders that ought to be sync'd, so maybe it does for other platforms too.

 

[nerp]

Must be a setting. Onedrive copies my camera roll to the cloud but does not affect local storage on my iPhone.