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
    2022-02-03T04:25:13+00:00

    **** MS? What demented product manager decided that MS needed to do storage management on my computer?

    Marking a folder "Always Keep On This Device" does not download the contents! You expect me to go to every single folder and enable "Always Keep..."?

    Somebody loads a file into a shared folder, and then I have to download it to see it? What's the point of a shared cloud folder if it's going to act like email?

    Thank you, but I will manage the storage on my computer for myself.

    You need to fix this with a new release ASAP!

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-29T17:12:13+00:00

    we do understand the inconveniences it caused

    Best Regards,

    Mia

    It's not just an "inconvenience." It's a time wasting, workflow breaking, makes me angry nightmare.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-03T04:30:16+00:00

    That is total BS. You don't remove a feature and then tell users, aka paying customers, to go to the wish list and beg for it to be reinstated. Nobody asked for this feature to be removed. Restore it and even make it the default for new users if you want, but don't tell us that we have to now beg MS to undo the damage they just did to a product I pay for!

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-29T19:35:19+00:00

    Hi there: if you had your OneDrive Folder in a different partition or another drive you can

    1. Press Command + Shift + . (period) to make the hidden files appear.
    2. You should see a hidden folder called ".ODContainer-OneDrive". This is where they moved all your local files
    3. Copy ALL the files out of that folder
    4. Use something else till this thing is fixed

    Personally, I've moved to Tresorit (https://tresorit.com/individuals) after this whole thing.

    Hope this helps.

    Thank you very much!

    Now can someone please tell me how files-on-demand saves space?

    Far as I can see we now have multiple copies of the files and hollow fake copies.

    This uses more space not less.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-01-29T17:12:14+00:00

    Hi. I am very, very angry about this new intrusion into my privacy and into my ownership of my data. Effectively, you have unilaterally decided to delete all my most important files from my harddrive. It frankly feels like data theft in all respects.

    Besides the fact that you have deleted my files from my computer – I am quite worried about whether I will be able to get the data back. What I (obviously) want to do now is to download all my data, leave OneDrive because it is clearly extremely unreliable and unethical, and go to another cloud storage provider. But I am unable to move (i.e. download) the files out of the OneDrive network drive (it just stalls) and I am equally unable to go to the web portal and download my files. It just downloads a zip-file with a bunch of error messages in .txt-files ("The following files/folders have not been downloaded ...").

    Please give me a 100% certain solution to download all my data – which you have deleted without asking – immediately!

    Has anyone else found a working solution to download the data Microsoft deleted?

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