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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  1. Anonymous
    2022-02-07T14:04:56+00:00

    Mia,

    you understand that many of us will have to make a decision on future use of Onedrive immediately. I certainly cannot wait until MS thinks about it. I have tried the alternatives suggested by MS and they are frankly useless. The other issue MS needs to consider is the loss of trust with your customers. After this debacle, I can never trust MS with my personal data again and will have to make alternate arrangements to secure my data.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-07T07:27:03+00:00

    What a truly customer hostile thing to do. There's a reason all of us had files-on-demand disabled, and you just suddenly decided to discard our preferences and harm us. Sure, I get it, it costs MS money to sync all those files all the time. But that's the service you used to offer, the service we used to love. I'm tired of MS causing problems. I'm going to see if there are other providers that behave the way the customer wants.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-07T03:43:35+00:00

    Very stupid!!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-07T02:00:47+00:00

    FIX THIS NOW!!!!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-06T15:29:03+00:00

    So unhappy, I have just cancelled my Office365 subscription.

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