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My situation is pretty much similar to designer-images one.
It took me more than a week to come to a more or less “stabilized” state of affairs.
But it is in no way an acceptable one :
- File on Demand has been forced on us
- The option to disallow it is gone
- After so much time spent right clicking on folders, double clicking on clouds and waiting for downloading, I am still not sure all my files are physically on my hard drive (in the root, cache, hydrated or whatever fancy technical way of calling it)
- The process occasionally burns up to 200% CPU
- The process systematically grows to several 10s GB of memory footprint
- Technical department seems absent and does not respond to any of the issues users are having (I will not comment on their testing/delivery procedures…)
- Marketing department is selling us this disaster as a “new experience” (the f.ck it is…)
My temporary solution (this is my personal setup - in no way I would be confortable with this if this was my professional setup - and this only works because on any single day I do “work” alone on a single session) :
- Exit OneDrive in the morning
- Take the risk of having no backup during the day
- Launch OneDrive at night so as to sync files
(I do own other older Macs that cannot upgrade to Monterey : OneDrive for those still allows for keeping File on Demand off and it seems they sync ok - et least I have a physical overnight backup there)
Long term solution : I cancelled auto renew for Office365 and I have a few month to explore other options.
In the same fashion Microsoft pushed me to switch from Windows to Mac 15 years go, they are once again inviting a paying customer to run away from them (and I stupidly thought for a while that they had changed their ways…).
(I will just need to look for a discounted lifetime Office licence so as to still be able to exchange with the unfortunate crowd still prisoner with Excel and Word - but this will definitely be the very last time any of my money is going to this company).