Feb 01 2022 12:04 PM - edited Feb 24 2022 10:21 AM
Hello there!
2.24.22 UPDATE: We've been listening to your feedback, and we've made some design changes. We're releasing a new version that addresses the most common themes and makes it easier to achieve the previous experience. Please read the latest blog post for more details.
Two weeks ago, we posted an update about Files On-Demand for macOS and have received overwhelming feedback from the community. We have spent a lot of time reading your comments and concerns to understand how we can improve your experience on macOS. To address some of the common issues and doubts we have updated the blog with a FAQ. If you still have more queries feel free to reach out to the team directly on this thread.
Thank you for your constant support and partnership!
Team OneDrive
Feb 04 2022 05:39 AM
@Ankita Kirti Another question - what do the OneDrive icons in finder mean now? The support article doesn't seem to reflect the reality of the latest App Store build. The screenshot attached shows some of the icons for files I have supposedly set to "always keep on this device".
Feb 04 2022 07:29 AM
Feb 04 2022 07:52 AM - edited Feb 04 2022 07:54 AM
@dan_e Running this script in Terminal will create (but not download) the folder structure and files which solved this initial problem for me. It's based on the script provided here .
I don't know, however, whether OneDrive keeps the structure up-to-date as new files and folders are added remotely.
ls -alR ~/Library/CloudStorage/
Feb 04 2022 10:03 AM
Feb 04 2022 02:34 PM
Got today 22.002.0201.0005 version and while trying to upgrade got error below even though my permissions and lock is ok
Feb 05 2022 07:58 AM
I have just updated One Drive and was very confused by all the changes. I found some explanation on thread https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-onedrive-blog/inside-the-new-files-on-demand-experi...
However in that thread Jack writes -
Why is it sometimes slow to browse folders in my OneDrive?
To save space and system resources, the File Provider platform doesn't actually create the files OneDrive is managing until the first time you need them. The first time you open a OneDrive folder, macOS will create them on-demand. This can sometimes take a moment.
To avoid this delay, you can force the system to pre-create all of these files and folders for you without downloading your content. To do this, open a Terminal window and type "ls -alR ~/OneDrive" (or the path to your OneDrive). This will ensure all of your files and folders are created, but not downloaded, before you browse.
I did this and this action started to deleted my files on OneDrive files my computer and online!! After about a half an hour of deleting I realise and terminated the terminal program. This is madness. I think I have a back up of the lost files, but this needs to be quickly amended or else many other users could lose their all their files.
Tom
Feb 05 2022 07:22 PM
Feb 06 2022 05:38 AM
Feb 06 2022 06:49 PM
This is a quote from your previous article posted here by @Jack Nichols https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/forums/editpage/board-id/OneDriveBlog/message-id/2651.
I am now posting here as you appear to have moved the discussion into this new thread.
Will this work with local file indexing (e.g. Apple's Spotlight)?Yes. Spotlight indexes everything that is in your sync root, but note that Spotlight will not fetch (or hydrate) files that are dataless. If you are looking for something in Spotlight that could only be read from the full file (such as image EXIF data), only fully hydrated files will be indexed.
Spotlight will not index our cache folder.
Oh, I see. After years of OneDrive having an excellent Mac client, you Mr. @Jack Nichols and your team decided to basically render it useless in one sweep with the snap of your fingers. Speak about a Thanos delirium complex!
You have just decided to completely kill:
I have Dropbox installed in my Mac and it has none of this nonsense. Many of the other cloud storage services have also no problem keeping their content synced offline for Spotlight to index it as it should.
Anybody here knows if it is possible to include this cache folder in the Spotlight index to get back part of the lost integration for full content indexing?
Feb 07 2022 11:41 AM
It happens even worse to me. Onedrive takes 6GB memory in a Mac M1 8GB. It doesn't make sense at all.
Any answer from Microsoft?
Feb 07 2022 03:52 PM
Feb 08 2022 08:22 AM
Feb 08 2022 08:28 AM
Feb 08 2022 02:08 PM - edited Feb 08 2022 02:09 PM
Y'all, it's been a moment since there was communication from the Microsoft side. Is there a timeline to un**bleep** this, or is the official decision that our needs are irrelevant. I'd really like to know what you folks are planning to address, because that has bearing on how I engage with my internal IT teams regarding supporting a distributed workforce.
Lack of communication regarding the issues that have been surfaced will be interpreted as choosing not to address those issues.
Feb 08 2022 02:20 PM
You made a promise to answer more queries about the OneDrive changes here. I can see a lot of folks struggling with the new experience, as well as a few genuine bugs being reported. I can't see a Microsoft reply to this thread since @Jack Nichols about 5 days ago. Could you pay us the respect of either replying to the questions, or letting us know that you're listening but making changes so answering questions wouldn't be sensible at the moment?
Feb 08 2022 02:28 PM
Yes, the Microsoft team are notable by their absence. Sadly I suspect that they have decided that we are the ones "who are using it wrong" and have completely stopped engaging with us.
I would like to think I could be wrong, but there are no signs to support that. MS seems to have decided that OneDrive is now a pure remote experience, and that use-cases such as traveling, tertiary backup and intermittent or expensive internet are not cases they want to support.
I am having to move all my files - my Cyber Insurance insists I have a third-party (non-Microsoft) backup of what is on my (paid, business) MS365 and I cannot now do that, so I am having to move everything.
I used to back up everything using Acronis but I cannot now do that.
Feb 08 2022 11:17 PM
Feb 09 2022 02:04 AM
Feb 09 2022 02:29 AM - edited Feb 09 2022 02:30 AM
Having used OneDrive for years, I do have to say I'm just sad and disappointed with the current state of things for OneDrive on the Mac after spending the past two weeks trying to figure out how to rework all my workflows that were heavily relying on OneDrive, as well as trying to explain to several less tech-savvy friends what was happening to OneDrive on their Macs, where their files are and what to do from now on.
Apple-mandated changes aside — as other cloud services will have to deal with them as well — this rollout was disastrously poorly communicated, and some changes which seem to be pure Microsoft decisions (like files on demand not being optional anymore) break so many workflows that it is simply incredible this was not properly and thoroughly tested before rollout. This feels like it has not been tested at all in real-life professional scenarios.
These decisions have led to a mess with a number of other bits of software, including e.g. Cryptomator (which needs encrypted files to reside locally), DEVONthink (which so far works fine with indexed files being on OneDrive, but leads to an inherently risky and potentially dangerous setup if one can not guarantee that they will always be available offline), and most of all any backup software (as one is no longer guaranteed local backups include all files as they may not have been available locally when backup ran — I fail to see how corporate customers will be happy with that state of things).
I don't feel like leaving OneDrive for Google Drive, Dropbox or iCloud, but then again, the current setup is all but reassuring when it comes to file availability and file integrity. It's a mess, who knows what's online, offline, or somewhere in-between, and I've found several corrupted images on the local drive that were otherwise fine in the cloud, leading me to believe there is something seriously wrong with the way OneDrive is syncing files now and making them available to macOS.
I have two M365 subscriptions, a personal and a business one, mostly for the fact that OneDrive was so crucial to my workflows and was such a great deal as part of the 365 subscription.