diff --git a/src/internal/m365/collection/drive/collections.go b/src/internal/m365/collection/drive/collections.go
index 6964774b8..b88de4aaa 100644
--- a/src/internal/m365/collection/drive/collections.go
+++ b/src/internal/m365/collection/drive/collections.go
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ func (c *Collections) addURLCacheToDriveCollections(
 		driveID,
 		prevDelta,
 		urlCacheRefreshInterval,
-		c.handler.NewItemPager(driveID, "", api.DriveItemSelectDefault()),
+		c.handler.NewItemPager(driveID, "", api.DriveItemSelectURLCache()),
 		errs)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
diff --git a/src/pkg/services/m365/api/config.go b/src/pkg/services/m365/api/config.go
index 9e2247279..a4758db88 100644
--- a/src/pkg/services/m365/api/config.go
+++ b/src/pkg/services/m365/api/config.go
@@ -112,3 +112,14 @@ func DriveItemSelectDefault() []string {
 		"malware",
 		"shared")
 }
+
+// URL cache only needs a subset of default select fields.
+// This improves memory usage for delta query operations done by URL cache.
+func DriveItemSelectURLCache() []string {
+	return idAnd(
+		"content.downloadUrl",
+		"deleted",
+		"file",
+		"folder",
+	)
+}