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
    2022-02-02T06:07:30+00:00

    "Jack from Microsoft" - the architect for the OneDrive sync client - posted blog post "Update 2/1/2022" yesterday. He explains how OneDrive for macOS client works in connection to macOS File Provider platform.

    That will not help some people issues but it explains a lot. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-onedrive-blog/inside-the-new-files-on-demand-experience-on-macos/ba-p/3058922/page/2

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-01T09:38:52+00:00

    Greetings,

    The manual solution to "Always keep on device" does not work, when I open the folder, there is still a lag before the files appear. Two major problems:

    1. As researchers working collaboratively via onedrive/sharepoint we need files to be available on our hardrives. We run automated R analyses from a pool of research files (including data and scripts) hosted in folders synced via onedrive/sharepoint. The Files are now either not available or their pathname has changed from root to ~/library/... for some users it has changed, for others not: you have broken our research applications.
    2. When did we consent — as Microsoft 365 users using institutional research accounts — to have our professional files (including research data protected by European ethical commitees) separated from our hard drive and stored only on your cloud server?

    I would request that you either undo the automated file on demand option that was unrolled without consultation or that you provide a one click option to disable it and restore files on disk under the original root path.

    Best,

    Dr. LH

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-01-31T10:15:38+00:00

    In my case, I'm using OneDrive as part of my Office 365 subscription, so there's no "upgrade" that can be made. This is a really stupid decision on Microsoft's part, especially not warning people.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-30T22:16:06+00:00

    Microsoft needs to fix this ASAP

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-01-29T10:19:17+00:00

    The problem is you can no longer select which files you want to keep on your hard drive - the option to 'keep all files on this device' doesn't work!!

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