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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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-28T10:19:22+00:00

    Just installed office without deleting the old version (configuring Outlook is a hassle). Anyway Nothing happened. Then decided tot add FilesOnDemandEnabled 0 to onedrive plist. Reboot nothing happened. What I did find was an old version of my files in another hidden directory. So ms is making a mess of it. There seemed to be (or still are?) two versions of one-drive. One for business and one for normal users. Unfortunately they have identical names. No one at ms seems to get the point that a person can have multiple accounts and roles. :-) and use only 2 machines as in my case.

    I lost data by the way. My time table which I use to record my hours or january. As far as I can see I will have to delete the onedrive app and every instance of a hidden file which relates to onedrive. Which is a pain since the files have partial UUID in their path/names. great :-(

    Then reinstall Onedrive and see if it works. But first download and save my files. I don't like icloud because I can't access it as a drive. Which onedrive can. But if control has to be handed over to a programmer who has no idea off what I want, even can't think of it, syncing as a service ends for me.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-01-28T10:20:50+00:00

    by the way de setting with the right mouse button "always omn this machine" does not work. It does nothing.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-28T10:37:10+00:00

    I am very unhappy about this change and also that we were told nothing in advance. For further information, see this article in the Register.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-01-28T11:08:21+00:00

    If it is possible to disable "Files on-demand" for individual files by clicking "Always keep on this device," it is obviously possible to not use files on-demand. That is, nothing in MacOS forced Microsoft to make "Files on-demand" obligatory. So why did they do it? It is a terrible move.

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