MacOS Monterey - Disable Files on Demand

Same problem here. Very annoying. Folder show "Always available on this device" and also "Not downloaded", so I can't use preview for example on the file. For every new file, I need to click on the cloud icon to be able to "use" the offline file.

This is frustrating since my workflow involves the "Save to OneDrive" on Outlook web and them going into Finder to work on the file, that now is just not there, even that the attachment folder is set to always available.

I was using the standalone version, tried to uninstall, reset and reinstall the App Store version without any change.

Mac Os Monterey 12.1
OneDrive 22.002.0103.0004

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.

Well this is a complete sh!t-sh0w. I had all my files wiped today, thanks Apple and Microsoft for such a great solution </sarcasm>.

find . -type f -exec head -c 1 {} \;

I set my folders to be "Always available on this device" and forced the sync using the above. This is faster than md5 because it only reads the first byte from every file. That is enough to trigger the sync. MD5 checksum requires all bytes in the file to be downloaded first, and then needs CPU time to compute the checksum.

pdteo Adding my voice to this. Running macOS Monterey, and OneDrive version 22.012 (Standalone)

Experiencing the same exact frustrations as everyone.

I am also affected by this and, as such decided to investigate what was happening. I don't think you will like what I'm about to tell you…

Apparently, Microsoft is now making use of a new framework by Apple, which works almost exactly like iCloud Drive, except instead of storing your stuff in /Users/[your account]/Library/Mobile Documents, it stores it in /Users/[your account]/Library/CloudStorage.

But not really, that's just where the “file system” is stored, and it works more like a bunch of hard/symlinks than anything else; the actual files (those which you decided to store locally, that is, but mine were fortunately still there, though I was afraid they might be gone, because in their “proper” location they all seemed to be available only on the cloud!) are still stored locally in the folder of your choice, except instead of getting a true folder, you get an alias, and the actual folder is now hidden and called “.ODContainer-OneDrive” (or “.ODContainer-OneDrive-[the name of your content provider” in case you have more than one account connected at the same time; in my case, that would be my University's SharePoint account).

Here's the thing: this is a total mess, because you never get direct access even to those files set to be always available, i.e. you can't perform QuickLook actions on them. And, I'm guessing, they weren't being properly indexed by Spotlight, as you pointed out. For advanced users, this is completely unacceptable. Yes, some people will enjoy using OneDrive as a convenient cloud-based “locker”, but many others really do need a multi-device, always available offline sync and backup solution, which allows their file structure to behave as a first-class citizen at all times.

So, for me, even if I did enjoy separating my files across different volumes, some in a OneDrive account and others in a Google Drive drive one, I just can't work with this anymore. To add insult to injury, even though those never synced across devices in the first place, all my custom icons and tags stopped displaying properly with this update (though, funnily and happily enough – as you will see in just a bit –, they were preserved in the .ODContainer-OneDrive folders), and my direct aliases (on the Dock and elsewhere) to folders inside of OneDrive stopped working altogether. Surely they could've come up with a migration tool which kept these aliases working, am I right? To launch such a destructive update is just amateurish, IMHO.

But really, that's not even the worst part. That Microsoft thought changing the entire working model of their OneDrive solution without prior notice was just fine and dandy, instead of doing it properly (if not that elegantly, of course) like Google did, with their successive Google Drive –> Google Backup and Sync –> Google Drive transitions and lots of advance warnings about support cut-off dates, is downright insulting. Yes, in the long run, I could accept the added opacity in the Finder, sure, but doing it like this makes it extra unacceptable, as it effectively constitutes a breach of confidence on a tool supposedly geared towards productivity. Well, these shenanigans really messed up with my productivity, and will keep having repercussions in the coming days (I don't even know if I have enough free space on my laptop to emulate the file structure I have on this Mac, for instance, and will likely be forced to anticipate by several months – and at a terrible time both financially and logistically, no less – an SSD upgrade I was mulling over), so… yeah, not very Microsoft-y of you, Microsoft.

So… do you want to know how I fixed this? Easy:

1. I quit all instances of OneDrive;

2. With the Finder active, I pressed Command+Shift+. (that is a period, yes), to make hidden files and folders temporarily visible;

3. I renamed said “.ODContainer-OneDrive” folders and removed the dot, thus making them visible;

4. I dragged the entire contents of my OneDrive folders (both of them; it's basically dead to me, and I'll only use it if someone specifically asks me to share folders through either of my accounts) into… my Google Drive folder.

5. ????

6. PROFIT!!! (because my Uni fees/scholarship cover both Office365 and GSuite subscriptions, and while the former only gives us 1 TB of free cloud storage, the latter is unlimited).

To the guys at Microsoft: sorry! It was good while it lasted, and I very much enjoyed auto-saving and one-click access to versioning when working in Word documents… But I'm more of an iWork and LibreOffice guy these days, and I always keep Time Machine backups anyway. I don't need your wares that much anymore, and your service is most definitely not dependable. Also, I will not be missing its ridiculous character set limitations (as a matter of fact, I shall be renaming a few of my files with lots of hash and pipe signs, and spaces at the end, as a way of celebration).