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
    2022-02-15T11:00:04+00:00

    So not a singel good respons from MS?

    Is this not their own forum?

    I guess this is the level of expertise and service one can expect from Microsoft.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-11T18:30:18+00:00

    Here is an update on how spectacularly this is working out for me and my limited data plan: as a reminder...folks in rural areas DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE but to have limited data plans, we don't have broadband here...and I'm only 10 miles from Morgantown WV.

    So, yesterday: 250 MB alone for me to work on the slide decks that I needed to access for upcoming presentations. 20 MB for my spreadsheets for our research project.

    Today was the best because I had to download my files, so that I could turn around and upload them to a conference secure website. This is me now using DOUBLE data because of the limitations you've put on keeping my files on the cloud. My service is now so throttled, that it took me nearly 3 minutes just to load this page to give you this update. Why is my service throttled, because I'm using an insane amount of my data to download my files that used to be right here...

    It's just not a fair solution for some of us who are stuck with rural internet providers, no broadband, and throttles on our usage. I'll be out of data in about 11 days if I keep up this rate. My plan doesn't turn over until the 30th.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-10T02:48:43+00:00

    Mia's reply to this OneDrive Files on Demand is really unacceptable. Forcing that on us is showing no understanding of a significant segment of users who want off line access to all files all the time. Not having a one-button method to override your insensitive approach with the recent update is disrespectful to the the user community, and saying that you don't have the resources to correct your mistake is laughable.

    Fix it!

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-06T15:41:59+00:00

    What a stupid thing to change. Come on Microsoft, listen to your customers and give us back the "always sync all files" option we had before.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-04T20:45:33+00:00

    Mia,

    in the blog you quote, the engineer states that :

    "The key thing to remember here is that if you double-click the files that we already have in our cache (files that you pinned when you selected “Always Keep On This Device” and anything you had downloaded before we did the upgrade), they will be retrieved and opened as expected, without any network traffic. This will work even if OneDrive isn't running, is paused, and so forth."

    This is definitely not what I experience. If I try to open a file that has the no download sign next to it doesn't open, unless I'm connected to internet. I have more than 100 GB of data and half of them have the no download sign next to them, even after I tried to download them or using the terminal command that the engineer suggests in the blog to run the first time we open OneDrive. I'm trying to get my files since Sunday, my laptop is ready for "lift off" with fans working continuously due to the huge amount of recourses that OneDrive consumes.

    Any advice one how to resolve this?

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