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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
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.
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.
Correct. Many thank for all above.
However to point out that in the last versions, when you selected "always keep on this device", the file/folder started automatically to download. This behaviour is now different. You have to explicitly click on the cloud to force downloading. Very counter intuitive.
My issue now is ... even if I say "free up space" on a folder ... it does not seem to remove the files from local, as the cloud icon does is not present (some assuming it was downloaded). I tried it on a folder with around 10GB and I see that the space was consumed on the disk.
Again, the separation of functionality between the icon from "always keep/free space" and the cloud icon is totally absurdity.
We should not need kinda like a a binary "truth table" to understand this 🙂
So my understanding is:
Icon. / Cloud
Not present / Not Downloaded = in the cloud, but if you open it will donwload
Not present / No icon = downloaded, but can be remove from local
Always Keep / Not Downloaded = will keep all you open but not auto download
Always Keep / No icon = downloaded, and it will keep copy always synced
What a mess.
Also, I see that reflecting all changes into the icons takes time (even on the M1 version) as the app is doing is file management internally.
