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
    2022-02-27T07:07:32+00:00

    so many bugs in version 22, and files on demand couldn't be disabled,

    the only way was to go back to version 21

    install package of version 21 was a bit hard to search, you can also install office for mac 2022, version 21.150 was in this package

    after install version 21, you must delete 3 update plists, if not, onedrive will update to version 22 and nightmare will recur

    update plists will start with computer and you can disable/delete use autostart manager.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-26T13:43:33+00:00

    And it completely broke my backup scheme, Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office. The update to OneDrive moved my local files to a subdirectory of ~username/Library/CloudStorage, which contains either actual files or references to files on the cloud. Acronis can't back up cloud files, so the backups always failed.

    Until I downloaded everything by doing Finder copies of everything on OneDrive and then deleting OneDrive from the computer.

    This cost me a bundle of time and $$, as I'd assumed my 16 GB WD backup NAS was hosed and replaced it.

    Slick move, Microsoft. It's stuff like this that makes me a Mac user.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-23T12:01:35+00:00

    Thanks for the info about pCloud JanTerjeAugestad ... having paid for a monthly subscription to Google Drive and uploaded all my files, I found that it was using a huge amount of hard drive space for cache files (noticed in my system data under 'About this Mac/Storage'). I stupidly tried deleting the cache files to free up the hard drive space they were taking up, but they then had to resync, meaning that they were all redownloaded to my hard drive! So I thought I'd check out pCloud. I moved all my files from GD to pCloud and once I'd uninstalled GD and deleted all files from GD, my system data went down from >400 GB to currently 55 GB. Obviously pCloud handles cache files in a very different way to GD!

    Once my files were uploaded (took a weekend to upload all 400 GB), pCloud has since been working smoothly and I've had no hassles at all with syncing. My files are safely stored on my hard drive and backed up to pCloud - exactly how OneDrive used to work before MS broke it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-21T21:50:07+00:00

    You can save a lot of effort by picking up an Insync licence. You can download all files locally from OneDrive and then upload to other services as you see fit. You can get it for macOS and Linux. See insynchq.com

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-17T22:39:30+00:00

    FWIW, I'm done with OneDrive because of this. I've migrated all my data to iCloud, and am happy with that. In truth, the only reason I was using OneDrive at all was that M$ gives us 1TB of 'free' storage with our M$365 accounts. It always drove me crazy that (even on a Mac), they still have their antiquated filename restrictions, so I certainly won't miss that!

    Good riddance, M$! I hope you learn a lesson from this debacle!

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