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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.
A Microsoft file hosting and synchronization service.
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Apologies if this is referred to in the other replies, but for those concerned with Auto Save being broken, I think the reason it works via an App e.g. Word is that you open the Cloud version not the local file. If within an App you navigate to a folder "On My Mac" and open from there auto save doesn't work. So, it appears completely broken for local files.
Yes, I noticed that the first time. It happened too fast to be downloading files and my files were on my hard drive all along in the "cache" location. Sneaky Microsoft!
You can use the free trial of CloudMount to sync your files indefinitely. This doesn't work for business unless you have admin and/or can ask your superior for admin, but it will work for personal. I am not 100% sue whether it will enable files offline (as I could not test it - I don't have admin in onedrive business), but for free, it's not a bad idea to try: https://cloudmounter.net
Correction to my previous reply; It was set to be local and was on my drive, but it was in the OneDrive hidden folder.
Yes, it was set as a local file and was on my local drive (before it got obliterated).