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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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'Always keep on this device' does not work. It does nothing. OneDrive doesn't sync my files nor folders back to my local drive after the request.
I am on MBA (M1, 2020), macOS Monterey 12.2
Unacceptable, all files need to be available locally at user option, when on a plane etc.
Must be fixed or I will stop using OneDrive.
I had thought I would stay with OneDrive and see if things get settled, but last night I ran a test with an old Word file. I opened if from the finder, made a minor change, and turned on auto save. Word just hung there with the “Saving…” message up (it was a very short file). After about 10 minutes, I had to close the file since it was obvious this was not going to resolve itself. Went back to Finder, and the file had vanished!
I can’t have this kind of uncertainty in my work flow, and I sure don’t want to lose any current work.
I have moved everything to iCloud Drive.
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?
A few hours ago I (in anger and frustration) subscribed to pCloud, and it turns out they have a "backup"-solution that allows you to enter your OneDrive login-data and pCloud will transfer all data for you. It's not fast, will probably take 2-3 days for my 300GB, but I'm so shocked and provoked that MS deleted all my files that it's worth it.
>>It was so fast that I suspect my files were actually on my computer the whole time and "downloading" just updated the "pointers" to my files in the OneDrive folder while the actual files are in the "cache" folder.
This is what you would expect. A move unix-like which only shuffles some inodes. But in my case I was working in an Excel file. Selected save and got the message after some time: not allowed to write. Then selected save as: after a while same problem. Not enough rights to write file. Only when not saving to the onedrive dir I could write. After closing excel I noticed that my onedrive had been replsced by a link or alias. That link led me to a directory skeleton. All directories and no files. Zero size. Clicking on a file would start excel which after a minute or so would open the file (i'm behind a 500mbit link for my personal use only, so???). I have two root directories in onedrive. So rightclicking and select download always. Nothing happened. Only when I drill down to a directory and select always on this machine I get the circle which slowly fills with grey as the files are downloaded. From what I think something went wrong when moving the files (whilst I was working in excel :-() and it has to do with rights (with ACL and xattr the 3 numbers for chmod no longer are enough). It is a bad idea to have user data in ~/Library anyway. (Less tech-savy users think they have all their data when copying the directories they can see). I don't use icloud for the exact same reason. Only when I want a file on my phone I copy it to onedrive. Just like most people use multiple srtreaming services, (professional) people use multiple cloudservices, so not one of them should act as if there is no competition. Unfortunately they all do :-(. Q.E.D. this post. And for the numbers: I had a little over 100.000 files in the two directories. Downloading through the browser dit dot work. It was really fast because I got a lot of underscore all errors.txt files. Great. Luckily my last timemachine backup was 9 minutes before the "update".