How to disable Files On-Demand in OneDrive MacOS? It's enforced since the last update ...

yes, our business went from Google Business to Microsoft 365 a couple of years ago. It's been fine (if often confusing) for that time, but this has broken our whole workflow. What amazes me is that our set-up is common for a lot of small to mid businesses -- no intranet, only MS365, all work folders on OneDrive. And they have broken that! They clearly don't see OneDrive as part of their business suite.

I'm now looking at alternatives.

Absolutely, completely unacceptable.

I'm reviewing options now.

Don't trust Google, and not familiar with iCloud, but seriously doubt either could be worse than this ... words escape me..

We've been using OneDrive since it was SkyDrive. It hasn't always been smooth, but overall it's been OK.

But this?!?

And, of course, our Microsoft 365 yearly subscription renewed the day before this hairball was unleashed on unsuspecting and unwarned users.

I've cancelled automatic renewal, and if I could get my money back I would.

I'm new to the Mac world and still feeling my way around, but the way things are going now I suspect that by this time next year we will have

• cancelled Microsoft 365
• bought a MacBook Pro for my wife.

Who has time for this level of frustration in their lives?

I concur with everyone's anger and, frankly, shock in this thread. I spent multiple hours this week trying to recover more than 100k work files--files I rely on for my job and use every single day--that had been deleted. This unannounced and poorly executed decision also removed all tags I had curated for the database that organized these files. They are forever gone, not just suspended in the cloud like the files themselves.

I'm still in a kind of disbelief that a company this large and this "professional" could be so unbelievably short-sighted. No exaggeration, this is a disaster. I simply cannot think of a bigger and more profound failure in my 40+ years as a prolific computer user.

It gives me no pleasure to say this but people should lose their jobs. This is how bad this is.

This is a disaster. Microsoft, please help. We cannot back up files as a result of this and you are putting our business at risk. How soon can you get an update out to fix this as well as the Outlook problem that requires a Teams default?

This was a very poorly designed change in OneDrive, obviously due to lack of understanding the various use cases involved. No planning, no reasearch, no testing. In my case, the new "feature" behaved as a malware attack. OneDrive hard deleted 500 GB of data from an external HD, and then started moving itself to my internal drive, by using my internet service to download 500 GB, from the cloud to my internal drive.

Does Microsoft hire Engineers anymore? Because this fiasco had to be designed by summer interns. What an embarrassment.