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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
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 ran into the same issue, but seem to have corrected it by right clicking the highest folder and choosing "always keep on this device". The result was having both icons (the check mark and the cloud). I then left clicked on the cloud for each file or folder and the information downloaded. When it downloaded, the cloud disappeared and I was left with only the check mark as before and it looks like it is synching as before as well. Hopefully this will help someone.
- Mike_Thomas2030, thank you for this. I wasn't getting anywhere other than frustrated with MS support on this issue.
Larger directories seemed to require clicking on the 'cloud' multiple times to get it to disappear. Just be patient and you should have things back to normal. I was a little worried at first because I was seeing drive usage climb during the sync process (my drive space usage didn't drop after the OneDrive/Monterey change), but usage didn't increase significantly and it bounced back after several hours.
For those backing up their OneDrive locally, below is the new path you'll need to point to.
/Users/[username]/Library/CloudStorage - I was about to write the same exact "resolution" here. You beat me to it.
However!! It is necessary to click each cloud RECURSIVELY. And THAT is the most painful part.
I was able to spend a few long minutes to do so. But I'm sure many people have many many subfolders and it would take an insane amount of time to go through each folder and sub-folder...If you right click the top folder that has all the subfolders enclosed, they will all be downloaded without having to go into every subfolder.
- After 2 days of total panic and time wasted, everything seems to be functioning now, as described by Mike_Thomas2030
It wasn't very intuitive to just click on the cloud...
At first I thought, it wasn't working, so I started clicking on each sub-folder's cloud. Only to realize that it takes time to download the content...
Cheers everyone.
- This was my experience as well. Annoying but not fatal.
Further discussion of the API changes can be found here, as this is due to an upcoming deprecation of the kexts used in MacOS by Dropbox and OneDrive Previously. Comments have further info:
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1828969
