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Brass Contributor

Jan 03, 2022

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...

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PeterRising
Jan 03, 2022
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

Ryland301

Copper Contributor

Sorry, I haven't edited a plist file before. I looked around online about how to do it, and found some stuff about it. Would "defaults write com.microsoft.OneDrive FilesOnDemandEnabled false" be what I need to put into Terminal, or am I doing it wrong? I find the lack of an option to turn this off in the client extremely annoying.

garylynch

Copper Contributor

Jan 31, 2022

Ryland301 - what do we know, we are only the user/customer. I have mow synchronised every folder I'm my OneDrive and selected 'always keep on this device' but have found if I add a new file to a folder, it does not work and have to synchronise it manually. I do think this is a bug rather than the way Microsoft/Apple want this to work otherwise why would the 'always keep on this device' be an option?

Sarditi
Copper Contributor
Jan 31, 2022
garylynch

I ended up moving to iCloud yesterday. I couldn't find any other solution online. I want my files on my computer and to back them up with my time machine. So far iCloud works fine for me. It took some work to make the move. I started it in the evening, so it was running when I was not active anyway.