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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
All other Windows machines work flawless.
All week he's had this problem with files synchronising as he keeps a copy of all files local.
I've had MS support on who just took screenshots. Apparently there's a fix being released on 14th Feb but thats too far away.
It's taking far too long for files to sync from/to this Mac and it's become unreliable for him to work with colleagues on documents as his files are not being pushed/pulled in a timely fashion. Also, losing the auto save function isnt ideal.
- I have 21.230.1206.0004 on an Intel MBP, some folders are cloud-only / view on demand, other selected folders are syncing corrrectly. Finder integration is fine.
The just today updated to 22.002.0103.0004 on a new M1 Pro MBP is a FAIL – I have lost Finder control of what is avialable on demand and what is synced to the MBP (i.e. the Finder icons are missing, the Context Menu is a DNS - reactivating the extension did not help).I have 21.230.1206.0004 on an Intel MBP, some folders are cloud-only / view on demand, other selected folders are syncing corrrectly. Finder integration is fine.
The just today updated to 22.002.0103.0004 on a new M1 Pro MBP is a FAIL – I have lost Finder control of what is avialable on demand and what is synced to the MBP (i.e. the Finder icons are missing, the Context Menu is a DNS - reactivating the extension did not help).... I now have 22.002.0201.0005 on the M1 Pro MBP and function has been restored.
The context menu is as before, so I can choose to keep some files and folders on the MBP ... BUT, now I have to ALSO click the cloud icon to activate a download icon, and before OneDrive will actually download the files & folders to the harddrive (... or even only admit that they are already there?).
Obviously somebody in development decided to screw around with a working system and decided it wasn't important to point out the change in functionality. Who runs these teams?- Here we go, this is what should have been automatically shown to users after the changes from around mid-January (or at least it was certainly not shown to me):
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-onedrive-blog/inside-the-new-files-on-demand-experience-on-macos/ba-p/3058922
- Hi
Yes that's the version on my iMac and it's the same version that Microsoft suggested I use. I did install (from the app store) 22.002.0201.0005 last night but had to remove it after multiple problems and go back to the one above. I do have an MacBook air (with Monterey 12.2) with 21.230.1206.0004 working as it should. Just wish I could down grade to that!
