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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
I lost a large part of the day to try and understand why are my "always keep on this machine" files not keeping local. This is kind a massive showstopper for any regular one drive user on the Mac, IMHO.
In the mean time discovered that there is a developer preview for the M1 - version 22.012.0116.0001. Way faster than the intel version on my M1 MBP. However still the same issues.
Also, when I force a "always keep on this machine" (like 2nd time) on a folder, I get an error dialog: "Couldn’t communicate with a helper application".
A business application with these types of bugs in 2022 is not understandable. Please MSFT fix this!
ruileal I get the same error message.
I am totally confused by this.
The capacity of my hard disk on my iMac is 2.12TB and I only have 800GB free - which is about right as up until all these problems, my iMac was the only computer I own where i chose to keep files locally (although I use TimeMachine and do monthly drive images using Carbon Copy Cloner onto an physical hard disk).
So I do have a lot of physical content on my machine but most of my subfolders in OneDrive display the 'cloud/Arrow' icon as do the files within those folders - which I guess means that they are not physical on the iMac. So are they on the machine (which disc usage indicates) or not on my machine (as indicated by the icons)?
+ Selecting 'always keep on this device' does not change the status of the icon and clicking on the icon on the parent OneDrive folder (or one of its second lever sub folders) does not download all the content below it. It only seems to work at the folder level. for me. Am i doing something wrong?
Finally see below. On my iMac (pic 1) OneDrive is version 22.002.0103.004 and on my MacBook Air (pic 2) Onedrive is 21.230.1206.004. Both are running Monterey 12.2. The Air is working fine, is there anyway of downgrading OneDrive on the iMac so I can get on with life?
Not sure if this is a Microsoft or Apple problem, but it stinks!
- I does stink indeed.
It definitely stinks functionally as you point out.
My main beef is about an even more troublesome issue: The update took all my local files, 250GB worth, and made them inaccessible locally without internet. This is my job-related content that I use regularly across 3 computers, and poof, I can't see it/find it on my hard drives anymore. When I need to work without access to the internet or with a poor connection (regularly), I am disabled. And the download option is glitchy and presumes I know at any moment exactly which files I need. I routinely pull information from previously created content --- only in the moment might it occur to me what I need.
Why the community was not warned about this so users like me could physically move their content out of their OneDrive-mapped folder is beyond comprehension. Microsoft does not own my content, and they have now severely limit my seamless access to what I own.
