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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
it looks to me like it's a cooperation effort between Microsoft and Apple.
I had Monterey 12.1 on one computer and 12.2 on another, SAME OneDrive version, on 12.1 the button to turn on files on demand showed, on the other didn't.
After updating to 12.2, I was greeted with the message above. After choosing Always Keep on this Device nothing happened except I got a little symbol by the name, then I pressed the cloud icon, it looked like it starts to download, but then it quits after a while. After pressing the cloud several times i still have items that didn't download.
Really frustrating. I can only imagine people with thousands of documents. But again, I don't know who to blame??...
