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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-01-31T20:00:19+00:00

    Unacceptable, all files need to be available locally at user option, when on a plane etc.

    Must be fixed or I will stop using OneDrive.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-31T23:57:11+00:00

    You can use the free trial of CloudMount to sync your files indefinitely. This doesn't work for business unless you have admin and/or can ask your superior for admin, but it will work for personal. I am not 100% sue whether it will enable files offline (as I could not test it - I don't have admin in onedrive business), but for free, it's not a bad idea to try: https://cloudmounter.net

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-01T08:52:26+00:00

    I turn off my iMac, come back the following day and my files are not there anymore, my folder cannot be located, my onedrive won't sync. Then, when I finally manage to reset it the files cannot be re-downloaded. And this is a business university account. WHY????? How on earth in 2022 would you think this is ok? Are we back to Windows XP?

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-01T09:38:52+00:00

    Greetings,

    The manual solution to "Always keep on device" does not work, when I open the folder, there is still a lag before the files appear. Two major problems:

    1. As researchers working collaboratively via onedrive/sharepoint we need files to be available on our hardrives. We run automated R analyses from a pool of research files (including data and scripts) hosted in folders synced via onedrive/sharepoint. The Files are now either not available or their pathname has changed from root to ~/library/... for some users it has changed, for others not: you have broken our research applications.
    2. When did we consent — as Microsoft 365 users using institutional research accounts — to have our professional files (including research data protected by European ethical commitees) separated from our hard drive and stored only on your cloud server?

    I would request that you either undo the automated file on demand option that was unrolled without consultation or that you provide a one click option to disable it and restore files on disk under the original root path.

    Best,

    Dr. LH

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-01T11:12:55+00:00

    It's incredible, I have a MAMP server with all the pages stored in OneDrive, and now OneDrive decides to delete all my files and MAMP doesn't work anymore. The "Always keep on this device" option does nothing. This is a major screw-up. I really need Microsoft to revert this ASAP, this is unacceptable.

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