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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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Google Drive for macOS is an Apple Silicon optimised app. There is an iOS/iPadOS app as well that supports multiple Google accounts and integrates nicely into the Files app. Other than not having a dark mode, it's a pretty good app.
I've stopped using it now, completely rethought my backup procedures. I can't trust a workflow where a company can effectively access my hard drive and remove files. I still can't get my head around them doing this.
If you don't mind KingJames1970, who did you end up going with for syncing files? I'm waiting to see if MS changes their stance, and also thrashing on which sync service to consider if MS doesn't address this.
I'm leaning toward Google One or iCloud. I suspect Google One might be a better choice, since our household is a mix of Windows + Mac.
Interested to hear opinions or experiences.
I left Google Drive because I had plenty of synchronization issues / conflicts, as they for whatever reason allow having two files with the same name in the same folder. This is nonsense to me and lead to duplicated files and the conflicts that arise. Plus they have no native applications for macOS / iOS.
For the time being, I have also moved my files out of OneDrive, and into Google Drive as I have already used it before.
With the current Google Drive client that was released last year you need to be aware that it only does file streaming (= files on demand) OR mirroring (fully downloading all files). There is no selective sync i.e. you cannot select just a few folders to sync. (Old Google Drive app had the selective sync option similar to OneDrive's.)
There's a thread on Google Cloud Community regarding Spotlight and not fully synced files (= when using file streaming). I'm mirroring all the files, so all are available locally, and Spotlight is indexing them just fine, including all the contents.
It mounts itself as more or less network storage which works fine (files go into the local bin when deleted, Quick View works, Spotlight works, etc.) but there's no word from Google yet on whether that system will also be impacted by macOS 12.3 changes. I guess it technically shouldn't be but I don't know.
The client is an M1 native app and though some posts also refer to it using large amounts of memory or CPU, I've not had any issues with it in the past two weeks. It seems to be less processor-intensive than OneDrive.
Truthfully I don't know yet, I took another backup on disk over to a friend's house and left it there! I haven't really had the time to figure out yet. I'm also waiting to see what happens because I actually only took out the subscription rather than buying it outright purely because of OneDrive.
I've stopped using it now, completely rethought my backup procedures. I can't trust a workflow where a company can effectively access my hard drive and remove files. I still can't get my head around them doing this.
If you don't mind KingJames1970, who did you end up going with for syncing files? I'm waiting to see if MS changes their stance, and also thrashing on which sync service to consider if MS doesn't address this.
I'm leaning toward Google One or iCloud. I suspect Google One might be a better choice, since our household is a mix of Windows + Mac.
Interested to hear opinions or experiences.