How to disable Files On-Demand in OneDrive MacOS? It's enforced since the last update ...

Anonymous
2022-01-27T12:43:10+00:00

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.

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneDrive | For business | MacOS

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-02-07T07:27:03+00:00

    What a truly customer hostile thing to do. There's a reason all of us had files-on-demand disabled, and you just suddenly decided to discard our preferences and harm us. Sure, I get it, it costs MS money to sync all those files all the time. But that's the service you used to offer, the service we used to love. I'm tired of MS causing problems. I'm going to see if there are other providers that behave the way the customer wants.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-07T03:43:35+00:00

    Very stupid!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-07T02:00:47+00:00

    FIX THIS NOW!!!!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-06T21:27:16+00:00

    Do you have any idea how discriminatory this is to rural populations...not to mention EXPENSIVE. Living a rural area and having very limited bandwidth AND a limited satellite data plan I cannot function like this. Our "platinum' viasat plan throttles my connection when I get past 100GB, if I am to use a cloud-based system "on demand" I will be out of data in a matter of days. I am a scientist at our university, my files are in the 100s of MBs each and now you are forcing me to access them remotely. I simply cannot function like this. when I right click to 'keep file on my computer' it will be there until I restart my macbook, then I"m back to everything on the cloud. You have no idea how real-world people need to function. This is an absolute mess for me.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-06T15:41:59+00:00

    What a stupid thing to change. Come on Microsoft, listen to your customers and give us back the "always sync all files" option we had before.

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