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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-02-07T16:37:30+00:00

    This may have been repeated by others, but once you re-download the folders/files to your computer it will still seem a hair slow if you are using the "OneDrive" folder to open things. I've found that if you repoint all your shortcuts/favorites to the actual OneDrive.noindex folder that others have pointed out in Group Containers - OneDrive StandAlone the slow lag is gone.

    Nothing like having this ultra fast new MacBook Pro M1 Max and feeling like its slow to open excel files...

    This obviously is not much of a permanent workaround since the whole file syncing and keeping files on local drive options is unreliable. But if you want to work within your files faster I'd try that for now.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-07T14:12:34+00:00

    Mia: As you are seeing in the many responses, we need to know the plan -- even if it's not immediate. We need to plan either temporary action or a permanent plan, as many of us are smaller businesses that can no longer operate with Microsoft if this problem is not corrected.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-06T15:01:35+00:00

    I would love to know who was the super smart engineer who stopped saving files to disk to saving to ram memory.

    Did not understand? I have a drive with 400gb of files that I keep synchronized with my Windows PC, and when I buy a new Mac M1 Max I expect it to work the same, but after synchronizing some folders and checking the option "Always Keep On This Devide" OneDrive simply synced 60gb of files using Ram/Swap memory.

    Honestly, I've never seen such a stupid change, congratulations to whoever authorized something like this to be compiled for production... I'll have to migrate now 400gb to Dropbox or GDrive to be able to use it and sync with other devices.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-05T11:18:12+00:00

    I have noticed this along the years for many times, that MS LOVES to change some popular/well-designed I/Os somehow, in totally non-sense ways. the latest example is this one. Why the hack to change it? New project/product managers want to show their work?

    Good government relationship managed by MS is the only reason I am stuck with the products, as Office 365 is the only business cloud service that runs well in both US and China. I have moved to the MacOS platform for years BTW. Keep doing this, and I will definitely try to move to apple's iCloud for my business in the future.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-05T10:11:31+00:00

    This is a very disastrous change. Does Microsoft really think this change is a good idea?

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