How to stop downloading from Onedrive automatically - filling up local HD

[staplemk]

Hello,

Does anyone know why this app might be downloading contents from Onedrive (cloud) back to my local directory after I have deleted them from my local dir? I left my computer on for a while and when I came back it had shut itself down because my HD was completely full. I had to run the command line and manually delete files before restarting.

I am just using the command:

onedrive --synchronize --upload-only --no-remote-delete

It seems like Onedrive is somehow running 'as a service', but I never told it to do so. My current idea to fix this is to change the download rate in the config file to be very low or to 0 so I cut if off....but I am curious if there is another method of stopping this automatic download back to my local dir after deleting the local dir files :)

EDIT: I realized there is only one rate_limit in the configuration that controls both the upload and download speed...so my solution isn't going to work

Thanks!

[abraunegg]

@staplemk
As you have not followed the correct support process as outlined here: https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive#reporting-issues or used the bug report template, I am going to make some assumptions responding to your issue. This is why the bug report template exists, to quickly provide answers & help.

Assumptions:

1. You are using Ubuntu
2. You have installed via the Ubuntu PPA
3. You are hit by the Ubuntu PPA bug listed here: Ubuntu PPA | Ubuntu | Debian Packages: onedrive --monitor runs automatically on startup after install #1274

To resolve:

1. Dont use Ubuntu
   • switch to another Linux OS
2. Dont use the Ubuntu PPA
   • Uninstall the Ubuntu PPA package
   • Build from source
   • Email the PPA package developer and get them to fix the package