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
    2022-01-29T22:04:56+00:00

    My local files are here:

    /Users/kevin/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.OneDriveStandaloneSuite/OneDrive.noindex/OneDrive

    Just replace "kevin" with the user name folder on your computer.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-29T22:22:07+00:00

    If only I'd discovered this myself before spending hours marking folders "Always Keep on this Device"... smh EasyFind search confirms duplicate copies of each file now. For the love of Pete!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-01-30T08:18:28+00:00

    Hi there: if you had your OneDrive Folder in your system drive you can:

    1. Press Command + Shift + . (period) to make the hidden files appear.
    2. Open Finder and press Command + Shift + G (Go to Folder).
    3. Paste these locations in finder and search for the files here ~/Library/CloudStorage/ and ~/Library/Group Containers/ (in group containers you should have something that looks like this UBF8T346G9.OneDriveStandaloneSuite/OneDrive.noindex)
    4. Copy ALL the files out of that folder
    5. Use something else till this thing is fixed

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-30T10:07:22+00:00

    >>It was so fast that I suspect my files were actually on my computer the whole time and "downloading" just updated the "pointers" to my files in the OneDrive folder while the actual files are in the "cache" folder.

    This is what you would expect. A move unix-like which only shuffles some inodes. But in my case I was working in an Excel file. Selected save and got the message after some time: not allowed to write. Then selected save as: after a while same problem. Not enough rights to write file. Only when not saving to the onedrive dir I could write. After closing excel I noticed that my onedrive had been replsced by a link or alias. That link led me to a directory skeleton. All directories and no files. Zero size. Clicking on a file would start excel which after a minute or so would open the file (i'm behind a 500mbit link for my personal use only, so???). I have two root directories in onedrive. So rightclicking and select download always. Nothing happened. Only when I drill down to a directory and select always on this machine I get the circle which slowly fills with grey as the files are downloaded. From what I think something went wrong when moving the files (whilst I was working in excel :-() and it has to do with rights (with ACL and xattr the 3 numbers for chmod no longer are enough). It is a bad idea to have user data in ~/Library anyway. (Less tech-savy users think they have all their data when copying the directories they can see). I don't use icloud for the exact same reason. Only when I want a file on my phone I copy it to onedrive. Just like most people use multiple srtreaming services, (professional) people use multiple cloudservices, so not one of them should act as if there is no competition. Unfortunately they all do :-(. Q.E.D. this post. And for the numbers: I had a little over 100.000 files in the two directories. Downloading through the browser dit dot work. It was really fast because I got a lot of underscore all errors.txt files. Great. Luckily my last timemachine backup was 9 minutes before the "update".

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-01-30T13:21:11+00:00

    This is ridiculous! I use the Cloud as a Backup, not as my front end!

    Please reverse this immediately.

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