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MacOS Monterey - Disable Files on Demand
- That sounds strange. I would expect it to be one or the other as you say. On my own Mac running Monterey I cannot duplicate your issue. As you say, you can't disable FOD from the OneDrive client settings but you should be able to do this with a PList as per https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/deploy-and-configure-on-macos#filesondemandenabled
pdteo I am having exactly the same problem.
To the comments of the other users. My whole workflow has been destroyed the other day when OneDrive updated itself automatically. I am now on version 22.002.0103.0004. This is the app store version, which I tried after unlinking the same standalone version and removing it. Exactly the same behaviour.
Furthermore, there are some strange ways the app is working. When I chose "Always keep on this device", OD looks like it is downloading something, but then when I right click a "downloaded" file and choose get info - I see "zero bytes on disk"!!! Useless to say, spotlight is not indexing anything, so I cannot find anything... The weirdest thing is that once I turn off my network and quit OD and then I double click on the file I am able to open it and view it!!???! Thereafter, the icon changes and spotlight finds the file.
I have been reading microsoft docs, but could not find anything describing this behaviour. Lastly I created a ticket with them and I have not received any reaction.
Hopefully this issue is resolved soon.