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Files On-Demand for macOS QA
This is a quote from your previous article posted here by Jack_Nichols https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/forums/editpage/board-id/OneDriveBlog/message-id/2651.
I am now posting here as you appear to have moved the discussion into this new thread.
Will this work with local file indexing (e.g. Apple's Spotlight)?Yes. Spotlight indexes everything that is in your sync root, but note that Spotlight will not fetch (or hydrate) files that are dataless. If you are looking for something in Spotlight that could only be read from the full file (such as image EXIF data), only fully hydrated files will be indexed.
Spotlight will not index our cache folder.
Oh, I see. After years of OneDrive having an excellent Mac client, you Mr. Jack_Nichols and your team decided to basically render it useless in one sweep with the snap of your fingers. Speak about a Thanos delirium complex!
You have just decided to completely kill:
- Spotlight integration of any file inside OneDrive. Indexing of only names in 2022 is completely useless. Content indexing is paramount for a search service like Spotlight in any platform.
- QuickLook integration of any file inside OneDrive. Together with Spotlight you just killed another key function of macOS as now you have to open every single file inside OneDrive if you want to quicklook at it from Finder.
- Having to manually click on any new OneDrive folder added from another device and mark it as "Always Keep on This Device" is such a joke, this completely kills the synchronization workflow from all your customers that need to access their data offline (basically everyone traveling that uses more than one device with OneDrive).
I have Dropbox installed in my Mac and it has none of this nonsense. Many of the other cloud storage services have also no problem keeping their content synced offline for Spotlight to index it as it should.
Anybody here knows if it is possible to include this cache folder in the Spotlight index to get back part of the lost integration for full content indexing?
