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For OneDrive home and business, I cannot disable Files-On-Demand since the last update. This is crucial, I need full access to my files at all time.
What is going on? Why would you enforce Files On-Demand on your customers, isn't it enough to enable it by default? My 70GB of cloud data is not local anymore, sometimes I have no internet, you are locking me away from my files. Also making it impossible for me to do full text searches. Files On-Demand is also too slow, waiting a second to display folder contents is too much when you organize things in deep folder structures.
How I can disable Files On-Demand? Will you please stop knowing the best for your customers? We aren't toddlers. Thanks!
If Files On-Demand is enforced by policy, I will leave your cloud service once and for all.
A Microsoft file hosting and synchronization service.
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Completely agree. Microsoft is turning into the evil corporation to steal the user data and not allowing users to access it. This needs to stop.
For this updated setting, we do understand that it would be better if there have another button/option to turn off the Files On-Demand feature instead of selecting all files/folders manually.
It WOULD be? You literally removed it. This is ridiculous. You just made me one step closer to switch to Google Drive. Congrats MS team.
edit: I have had my files downloaded locally, and now they're gone. As it happens I just purchased a brand new SSD, and now I can download almost a terabyte data AGAIN.
Also, it looks like auto save is all messed up. When I open a file in Word I seem to have to manually turn on auto save. And when I close and reopen I have to switch auto save back on and when it uploads it tells me the file already exists. What on earth has happened to the App?
This sounds promising, but does it ONLY work if you had OneDrive on a partition or other hard drive? I had it on my Mac hard drive under my username. Where can I find the '.ODContainer-OneDrive' folder to retrieve my local files? Any idea?
I'm not gonna go for an alternative without further research. I already own a piece of software which allows me to sync between different machines on my network at home/office. Since it's only me that needs syncing and it involves two machines the number of permutations is not that big (either with more people or more machines it gets complicated really fast).
I also own a piece of software which helps me mounting onedrive as a networkdisk. So my heavily encrypted backups are on onedrive. Which works because you can select (still; but maybe that is also going to disappear :-( ) which directories not to sync. That is the biggest difference between onedrive and icloud and why icloud is useless. I pay for the diskspace so why not use it?