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
    2022-02-09T21:46:17+00:00

    Great point Boatguy54!

    Few can do without Office....

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  2. 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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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-09T07:52:19+00:00

    Unfortunately, I have same issues with a 1Tb plan

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-08T17:40:26+00:00

    MS - are you fixing this? There is now no easy way to have my files local. I've tried right clicking on folders anD it works intermittently, but is a huge annoyance in any case. Why should I have to right click every folder or file to have them local.

    YOU BROKE ONE DRIVE! FIX IT!

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-08T17:14:49+00:00

    This happened on the day of the rollout. Broke all my Big Sur machines.

    I promptly used my Catalina machine to move all files to Dropbox permanently.

    OneDrive was a pain to begin with (Slow, no LAN sync, files go missing), and it looks like the devs thought to themselves, "how can I make this truly a COMPLETELY deplorable experience?"

    Oh well. Only reason I used it was because it was free at work.

    But even free is not worth this bloody headache. I rather give Dropbox my personal money than suffer through OneDrive.

    Also moving our entire organization over. No second chances. Crippled work for days.

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