How to disable Files On-Demand in OneDrive MacOS? It's enforced since the last update ...

Hi,

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Based on the detailed description, we do understand the inconveniences it caused on your side with the latest updates in OneDrive for Mac desktop app that Files On-Demand will be enabled automatically. Kindly check the statement in the official article: Save disk space with OneDrive Files On-Demand for Mac (microsoft.com)

For the possible workaround currently, it is suggested to right-click on the offline-needed files/folders and select 'Always keep on this device'.

For this updated setting, we do understand that it would be better if there have another button/option to turn off the Files On-Demand feature instead of selecting all files/folders manually. As forum engineers here have limited resources to the building of OneDrive apps, kindly submit your feedback to the related OneDrive for Mac product team so that they can get informed that this can cause some inconveniences for users who need files locally when offline. See: How do I give feedback on Microsoft Office?

Your understanding is highly appreciated and hope a nice day for you!!

Best Regards,

Mia

Everytime you kept saying "we do understand the inconveniences it caused..... blablabla.....". Did you really understand? ---NO! Have you been making more troubles after each so-called "updates"? ---YES!
Everyone ever worked at Microsoft are genius --- at least you think you are. As an MS Excel user, I tell you the best version was 4.0 & 5.0. Since then, all new versions were rubbish. You could become the would's greatest people if you kept the old versions for all of your products & never made any trouble-making updates/upgrades.
Not sure you've heard a joke form the 90S: If we were compensated $1 for everytime our computer got hung by MS products, Bill Gates would go bankrupt in a week. The joke still stands today!

Thanks for checking but as you say, all trust is gone. As if I’d ever trust them again after deleting all my work files from my Mac. Still crazy to think they did that.

Ruined my workflow, ruined my "Mac experience". Hey Apple!!!! OneDrive is a Trojan!!! Now I'm angry as ****!!!!!! Moving to a NextCloud service. I'm not in the US but... can anyone sue this **** to oblivion, please??????

Interestingly, if you right lick on a onedrive folder, and chose "always keep on this device", it seems to incorrectly show the files as in the cloud only (there is a cloud download icon, and a strange round icon/button which looks like an aeroplane taking off), but they do seem to be downloaded. To test this, I disconnected from the network, and tried opening several files which I had not opened before.

Very very strangely , there is a noticeable delay to opening them, compared with non onedrive folder files, but it does open them (at least all I have tried so far).

So it seems to be possible to get onedrive on always download specific folders (which is exactly what I want), but you would not know it works from the incorrect UI icons.

To make it more confusing, files which should all be always downloaded randomly have the cloud, take off, or both on them with no obvious pattern

Hmm, I had a similar issue with a couple of large PSD files (400+mb) but I figured it was because I first tried to enable that "Keep files locally" and I had both icons for those folders (cloud icon + local icon) . I figured that somehow corrupted the files. Did you try to first set the files as local and after that move them out of the hidden folder?