How to delete files from onedrive on android phone

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How to delete files from the OneDrive website
How to delete files from OneDrive using your computer
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Pablo Calvog/ShutterstockOneDrive for Android is about to get a whole lot more useful. The team behind the Android version of the app have put together some new features that are now showing up in the beta version of OneDrive.

So what is new? Well, the best new feature is that OneDrive will now help you save space on your device by offering to delete photos from your device that has been backed up to your OneDrive account — all without you having to do anything.

The feature will certainly be helpful for users — storage space is a valuable thing for many people these days, especially with manufacturers sticking to low storage amounts like 8GB or 16GB. If you have internet access most of the time and aren’t worried about using data, then there is no reason to not use cloud storage like OneDrive — you still have access to your files, but they are not taking up space on your phone. That is especially helpful for phones that don’t support microSD cards.

“We call this feature ‘Clean Up Space.’ When you upload 1GB worth of photos to OneDrive, we’ll automatically offer to remove the local copies of the photos on your device to free up some space on your phone for things like Apps and Music,” said the OneDrive team in a Google+ post.

When users to get notified of content that has been uploaded, they can choose to either delete content that was uploaded, leave the content in place for now, or leave it indefinitely. Currently, the feature is only in beta, so if you’re running the consumer version of the app you may need to wait a little before you will get the new feature for yourself. If you don’t want to wait, you will need to sign up for the beta, which you can do by heading to this link.

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Microsoft OneDrive is designed to keep your files in sync across all devices it's connected to. If you add a file to your PC's OneDrive folder, it's automatically uploaded to OneDrive, and then made available on any other computers, tablets, and phones using that OneDrive account. That means if you delete a file from any device, it's deleted from OneDrive and all other OneDrive-connected devices.

There's one exception to this rule: If you use OneDrive to back up photos on your phone, deleting OneDrive copies of your photos will not affect the photos stored on your phone.

Deleting files from OneDrive isn't much different than deleting files from your computer – the main difference is that you have a choice of deleting them from File Explorer on your desktop or from the OneDrive website.

How to delete files from the OneDrive website

1. Open the OneDrive website in a web browser and find the file or folder you want to delete.

2. Select each file or folder you want to delete by checking the bubble at the top right corner of the icon.

3. Click "Delete" in the toolbar at the top of the webpage. After a few moments, the file will be removed from all devices this OneDrive account is linked to.

Select the files you want to delete and click the "Delete" button. Dave Johnson/Business Insider

If you delete a file by mistake, you can click "Undo" in the pop-up window that appears briefly. Otherwise, you can click "Recycle bin" in the navigation pane on the left side of the screen, click the file, and then click "Restore" from the toolbar.

How to delete files from OneDrive using your computer

1. Open the File Explorer and navigate to your OneDrive folder. An easy way to do this is to click the OneDrive icon in the notification area at the bottom right of the desktop, then click "Open Folder."

You can open OneDrive either from File Explorer or from the notification area on the bottom right of your screen. Dave Johnson/Business Insider

2. Find the file you want to delete and press the Delete key on your keyboard.

The file is immediately deleted from your computer and after a few moments is also removed from all devices linked to your OneDrive account.

Tap and hold the file you want to delete. (To delete multiple files, after selecting a file, check the circles next to each additional file you want to delete).

Note: You can only delete 200 files at a time. If you need to delete more than 200 files at once, go to OneDrive.com.
Tap Delete
.
When asked to confirm your deletion, select OK.

Tap the Me icon
at the bottom right of your screen, select the account, and then tap Recycle Bin.
In the Recycle Bin view, select the files you want to restore.
To restore the files back to your OneDrive, tap Restore
.

Tap the Me icon
at the bottom right of your screen, tap the account you're using, and then tap Recycle Bin.
In the Recycle Bin view, select the files you want to delete.
Tap Delete
to remove the files permanently.

Note: Android users have the option to empty the entire Recycle Bin at once by tapping Delete All in the upper right.

In the OneDrive app, tap the Me icon

at the bottom right of your screen, and then look at the Storage Space line to see your total storage and space available or to purchase additional storage.

Tap and hold the file you want to delete. (To delete multiple files, after selecting a file, check the circles next to each additional file you want to delete).

Note: You can only delete 200 files at a time. If you need to delete more than 200 files at once, go to OneDrive.com.
Tap More
, then tap Delete
.
When asked to confirm your deletion, select Delete.

Tap the Me icon
in the upper left of your screen, select the account, and then tap Recycle Bin.
In the Recycle Bin view, select the files you want to restore.
To restore the files back to your OneDrive, tap Restore
.

Tap the Me icon
in the upper left of your screen, tap the account you're using, and then tap Recycle Bin.
In the Recycle Bin view, select the files you want to delete.
Tap Delete
to remove the files permanently.

In the OneDrive app, tap the Me icon

in the upper left of your screen, and then look at the Storage Space line to see your total storage and space available or to purchase additional storage.

Tap Select
, then select the file or files you want to delete.

Note: You can only delete 200 files at a time. If you need to delete more than 200 files at once, go to OneDrive.com.
Tap Delete
.
When asked to confirm your deletion, select Delete.

Tap Menu
> Recycle bin. (For Windows 8 or 8.1, tap Menu
> Settings > Accounts. Select the account, then tap View Recycle Bin.)
Tap Select
and tap the check box of the files you want to recover, then tap Restore
.

Tap Menu
> Recycle bin. (For Windows 8 or 8.1, tap Menu
> Settings > Accounts. Select the account, then tap View Recycle Bin.)
In the Recycle Bin view, select the files you want to delete.
Tap Delete
to remove the files permanently.