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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 managed to finally enable work collaboration and autosave file for office apps. While having some file on files on demand and most files offline.
I uninstalled the OneDrive app from the App store, and https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-365/onedrive/download from the Microsoft website.
It was so frustrating not having files to sync in real-time and have them available offline at the same time. Things worked great until the Monterey update yesterday.
So, I lost a lot of time being frustrated in finding fix. Until I simply reinstalled the app and deleted all my offline files.
Now it's working fine. The icons are still grey but it's working well so far. I have to wait though for tons of files to be back offline, and hopefully no more bugs will occur.