Microsoft
Let me reiterate, that the Cache folder, now only used for home volume sync, does not serve any useful purpose any more. Why don’t you ditch it for good?
I thought that for syncing to a non-home volume, using the Cache folder as a middleman between macOS File Provider and the actual OneDrive Cloud Storage was quite a clever solution. But for the normal use case with only the home volume it seemed to introduce unnecessary complexity, failure potential and a confusing user experience.
So now that Apple allows to move the Sync Root itself to the other drive – wouldn't it be time to get rid of the middleman altogether? What's the actual advantage of the cloned cache folder approach (especially with home-only storage) compared to using File Provider the way its is intended?
As with same expectations with all other products from Microsoft, it is an unbelievable choice and provide a unnecessary comprehensive solution to a pretty much a simple feature request - sync files within the removable drive, which most Mac users are facing to.
We are at first very excited to hear this news, then update all our client to the Insider Ring, then the familiar disappointment feelings (that especially to Microsoft products), appears again. As I can observe, you letting us to store the files into a removable drive while keep consuming storage on both local drive `Macintosh HD` and removable drive.
What a marvellous features that appears to be ruined by Microsoft again, can we just have the feature from the very old 2021 version that just work?
Nowadays, even we do not have choice to use the old version to keep this working, since it will force you to update no matter what. You just do not give freedom of choice for your customer?
Hopefully you guys will fix it by the next 5 or 10 years or so.
Cannot agree more.
