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
    2022-02-03T02:16:54+00:00

    MICROSOFT: Can you give us an estimate on the fix for this?

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-03T03:17:51+00:00

    Hi everyone,

    The related product engineer has been updating about this new experience in the blog: Inside the new Files On-Demand Experience on macOS - Microsoft Tech Community Kindly check the details and feel free to submit your feedback and ideas in OneDrive · Feedback Community (microsoft.com) or leave comments in the blog so that the related product team can hear your voice more clearly.

    Best Regards,

    Mia

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-03T03:28:10+00:00

    This isn't a 'New Experience' - it's a disaster that has caused many of us hours and hours of time trying to undo. Why else am I still at my machine at this time of the evening?

    Our businesses are being damaged by this rushed release.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-03T04:25:13+00:00

    **** MS? What demented product manager decided that MS needed to do storage management on my computer?

    Marking a folder "Always Keep On This Device" does not download the contents! You expect me to go to every single folder and enable "Always Keep..."?

    Somebody loads a file into a shared folder, and then I have to download it to see it? What's the point of a shared cloud folder if it's going to act like email?

    Thank you, but I will manage the storage on my computer for myself.

    You need to fix this with a new release ASAP!

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-03T04:30:16+00:00

    That is total BS. You don't remove a feature and then tell users, aka paying customers, to go to the wish list and beg for it to be reinstated. Nobody asked for this feature to be removed. Restore it and even make it the default for new users if you want, but don't tell us that we have to now beg MS to undo the damage they just did to a product I pay for!

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