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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
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- yeah, as about 100 posts in this thread point out, it doesn't really work, at least "always keep on this device" function. But now we know who to blame, "Jack from Microsoft"... all kind of harsh profanities go through my mind right now
- I have spent the day trying to download all my files and then pushing them to iCloud. And I still can't get OneDrive to download them all. It keeps crashing. Assholes. This is litigious. Class Action?
