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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
Have you managed to resolve this issue? I am running into the same problem with the same symptoms.
Clicking on each "Not Downloaded" icon forces the file system to recognize that the files are local. It does not appear to actually download anything. However, this regularly resets to showing both icons.
In addition to spotlight indexing not working for files that are local but flagged as "Not Downloaded" other programs that require the files to be local error when the files show as "Not Downloaded"
Hi ABCorbett I went for a shortcut by right clicking the desired folders and choosing the "always available on this device" option. It's still erratic though, sometimes it works and sometimes I lose my files and I have to repeat the process. Another issue I have is that it keeps creating supplementary versions of my files for no apparent reasons and deleting the duplicates on the Mac won't have any impact as they keep being recreating. I found a workaround by going to Onedrive online and deleting the online version(s) of the same file. I even had up to 3 different duplicate versions!
Onedrive is definitely unwieldy and bug-ridden. I miss my dropbox days.
Onedrive is definitely unwieldy and bug-ridden. I miss my dropbox days.