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OneDrive starting to sync files bigger than 2GB

It's now a lot easier to use up your cloud storage.

While Microsoft has increased the amount of free space in its OneDrive cloud storage service and made it cheaper to buy more space, filling the cloud with data has always been a little annoying, since the company's sync apps have been limited to a maximum file size of 2GB. Anything larger won't get synced, and this limitation has provoked no end of complaints and frustration from OneDrive users.

It appears that the restriction is being lifted. Over the weekend, posters on reddit noticed that their large files were being synchronized between local and cloud storage.

Not everyone appears to be able to upload large files, with a Microsoft spokesman saying the company had started rolling out large file support, and that it would have a public announcement on the OneDrive blog at a later date.

The Web interface appears to still be limited to uploads of 300MB or less.

It's not yet clear just how big the new limit is. The "Bigger than 2GB" Twitter account that has campaigned for a couple of weeks to raise the limit has retweeted people reporting successful uploads of 4.7GB and 5GB.

Channel Ars Technica