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
    2022-02-14T14:11:46+00:00

    Came to do some work, discovered Microsoft had deleted all my files from my hard drive. Just as well I'm so careful about backups of backups.

    Everything will be restored in my usual documents folder and OneDrive will no longer be used. I paid for this service as part of my subscription so I feel robbed twice now - once of my files and from buying a service that now has zero use.

    MS have 100% lost my trust. I'm gobsmacked anybody would think this was a good idea. I found a phone number for customer support that gives you this website address and then hangs up on you. Says it all.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-12T12:09:57+00:00

    Th is annoying! I just made my company moving away from server. I have to move to dropbox if this is not being fixed!

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-10T03:21:25+00:00

    I'm so disappointed and thinking seriously on moving away from OneDrive.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-09T21:46:17+00:00

    Great point Boatguy54!

    Few can do without Office....

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-09T21:39:49+00:00

    Yes, but, Apples, Pages, Numbers and Keynote (or LibreOffice) are suddenly looking very attractive. The deciding factor in signing up for Office365 was 5TB of storage. They have just taken that away. I have spent the day migrating all my data from Onedrive (what a waste of my time!). Now I will be migrating to a different suite of office applications.

    I hope their Onedrive savings are more than the loss of Office365 subscriptions.

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