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Files on Demand randomly downloading and filling hard drives
We have an Office 365 for Education tenant and have been migrating users from our file servers to OneDrive with Files On Demand. Recently we have been finding files and folders being downloaded even ...
Quite sure that the antivirus are not «files on demand» compatible. Quick out of my head I see 4 ways of fixing it. Number one and the best, use built in windows defender instead. Windows defender are now on of the best AV, had a bad rep for a while but totaly trustworthy know and free. Number 2, get a newer version of AV or another vendor. Number 3 exclude the path to the onedriver folders, this might be risky since the files will not be scanned regularary, but most AV would scan them while they are being downloaded and for sure when been runned. Number 4, select only necessary folders to be synced and keep everything downloaded
One other tip if it’s not AV related, clear upload cache. For Office you might need to manually delete the folder with the cache. Onedrive try tips 8 and lastly 9 in this post https://www.windowscentral.com/9-tips-help-you-fix-onedrive-sync-problems-windows-10
