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MacOS Monterey - Disable Files on Demand
I use OneDrive to synch all my files with another computer at work and just upgraded to Monterey. I need to be able to search for data in the files using Spotlight/Quick Look etc. so I typically do a...
- 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
Well, this morning, I cannot even open files that are "on-demand." Unless I downloaded it yesterday, clicking the cloud icon, I am stuck. Finder appears to be trying to access it but nothing happens.
I would receive advise about what cloud storage is working. I need to change.
I would receive advise about what cloud storage is working. I need to change.
- Today finally I have sorted out many files after two days of struggle. I could not work and go to the office because of these problems. I am suggesting updating the macOS to 12.2 Monterey and then going to your OD on browser and trying to delete all small project files like target folders, etc. the files which are auto-generating and trivial. This will increase the sync speed a lot. Unfortunately, these thousands of small files create too much pain when it comes to syncing. After this cleaning step, download and reinstall OD, link your account and start the sync.
The sync is also not very stable, it is taking too much time and even your click the cloud icon sometimes the OD/OD file provider cannot download the files. I click multiple times that icon to download some critical folders and their contents.
After these, I sent suggestion lists to OD.
- Syncing small files is a very big pain. They should find a way to sync them faster.
- It is nice to have a setting to control CPU usage like (low-medium-high) because it killed the CPU for the last two days.
- Singing in the account takes too much time. It should be fast very fast.
- The download icon is not reliable, I need to click many times to download the files especially higher folder levels it is not working properly. If you click only a single file it does not have any problems.
- Even I have a 500MBit internet connection the download speed was not high. I set the download and upload settings as (Don't Limit) but it took too much time to sync the files. The OD app should open multiple connections to download the files as much as it can.
Now, finally, I saved many files as I see until now and opened some project files. One weird thing is I need to do rollback for the projects which are integrated with git because after these problems IntelliJ (development IDE) and git client interpret that all project files are new.
Good luck to all people who faced and will face these problems.
