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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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we do understand the inconveniences it caused
Best Regards,
Mia
It's not just an "inconvenience." It's a time wasting, workflow breaking, makes me angry nightmare.
I need to be able to turn off files on demand ACTUALLY. I keep all my documents on two OneDrive accounts. I need to access these files from my home computer, work computer and mobile computer.
I purchased a 2TB hard drive just so I could keep all this data on my computer.
I selected all my files and selected "Always keep on this device." This actually means next time you select that file then it will be downloaded and ONLY THEN kept on that SINGLE device. I have TEN years of files both personal and work.
Right now I am out of the country on my laptop and a very shaky dsl connection.
Right now I am downloading what I think I will need. Later when I have to use my phone as a hotspot, I don't want to be download some costly data.
This needs to change.
Are you listening Microsoft?
Grrr.... OneDrive on Mac has always been crappy (drains the battery and so on) but the last few months It worked smoothly.
Until today when I got this bad update.
Selecting folders and choose 'always keep on this device' does not work.
The most annoying thing is the time it takes to open folders. I have a 2021 iMac 27, 10-core intel i9 and I have the feeling I'm working on a 15 year old Windows........
I think I will finaly say goodbye to OneDrive and switch to dropbox.....
After considering the various alternatives to one drive, I've decided to ditch it and use Google drive as I already had a basic subscription (had to upgrade my subscription to a paid one to get more space) and so far it's working perfectly ...
Yes, I was happy with Google's solution before as well, but I ditched it for Microsoft, because Google's client causes so much battery drain. Nothing is fulfilling to me anymore. I learned a lesson with this, never trust your Cloud provider to do things right for you. I will hire a server and setup my own cloud, there are enough open-source projects that allow on-premise hosting.
Screw you Microsoft, screw you big tech!
The problem is you can no longer select which files you want to keep on your hard drive - the option to 'keep all files on this device' doesn't work!!