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
    2022-02-10T20:35:41+00:00

    I feel everyone's pain here. I struggled for about a week, and then ultimately made the decision a few days ago to migrate elsewhere. It was the right decision.

    Microsoft has gone radio silent because this was an intentional change as part of a broader business plan. They're not going to revert back to the way it was. They're just Justin Trudeau'ing the thread hoping it'll go away. The ball is in the users' court, whether you like it or not.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-10T14:05:12+00:00

    Using your solution of having to now re-download all of my files by selecting "Always Keep on This Device" will cost me my next 3 full months of data usage allotment on my internet plan. I don't think that you realize that I don't have any other option than a satellite internet plan with limited data. Living in a rural area I do not have broadband available. Even if I want it and want to pay for it, we simply do not have broadband. So my choices are use the 'always keep on this device' today and blow out my plan for the rest of the month or incrementally, over the next 3-5 months gradually re-download all of my files. This is unreal.

    I will literally have to go somewhere like my library this weekend to access their wifi and hope that I can download some of the files to a flashdrive, although again, in rural communities they too have significant limitations on download speeds. Fast food restaurants sometimes have wifi available for free...I will need to scope out places in the county where I can tap into free access so that I don't blow out my data plan to access MY files.

    Can you understand that this is just not right?

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-10T10:12:57+00:00

    Same here. So angry.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-10T09:09:35+00:00

    This "feature" made me miss 2 deadlines that day i updated because i had to wait for 1TB of data to re-download. And it continues to "impress" with adding extra steps to my workflows every day. OneDrive was a simple way to work synced with multiple people.. now its a headache. Looking into alternatives for a 119 people company..

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-08T07:21:58+00:00

    I'm so frustrated with that change. I need all files on the local machine.

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