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Files On-Demand for macOS QA
Is there any support for a situation where the user's home directory itself is on an external drive? I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro (M1, 2021) with insufficient internal drive space to comfortably hold my personal account, and purchased and set up an external SSD drive to house my home directory. The SSD drive is formatted as an APFS volume. My work account has an existing and quite extensive collection of files on OneDrive. After installing OneDrive and using the default location in my home directory as my OneDrive folder, I find that the directory structure (i.e., all the folders and subfolders) of my OneDrive store is visible locally, but the files themselves are not. They can be viewed online (by right-clicking a folder and selecting View online) but are invisible locally. Downloading all files works in that the pull-down menu shows download progress, and available space on disk decreases, but the files are visible neither via the Finder, nor the command line. If I choose the internal drive for my OneDrive location, the cache is placed inside the .ODcontainer directory as advertised, but the behavior is otherwise exactly the same: only the directory structure is visible locally.
Is my configuration supported or not? If not, are there any plans to support this configuration?