This is MS arrogance and workflow breaking paternalism on a level exceeding even Steve Jobs' wildest dreams. Now, without any warning, it no longer even functions the way I want and need it to. I moved from Dropbox to OneDrive several years ago, because I was already paying for a family MS365 subscription, and I've put up with the weirdness to maintain Windows compatibility and how it hogs resources on iOS since, because it was saving me money. Even if I tell OneDrive to store files locally, it stores them on my (smaller) system drive, which I can't move to another computer. I upgraded my ancient iMac to a M1 Mini about a year ago, and like many others, I'm sure, I kept my local OneDrive folder on a large external data drive so that I always had quick access, even when I had no Internet connection (Spectrum is, um, not production quality). Since MS gave us no warning, I can't say. Just discovered this had been happening for some time.

Please let there be maintenance releases from Apple (and if necessary Microsoft). Except that they were just restored to the hard drive as above. #4 Amazingly, if you delete a lot of files, OneDrive gives its longstanding warning about keeping mass deleted files for 30 days: 'Recently deleted: and 17 more files'. #3 You can delete files by clicking 'Delete' in the above popup (Trash is bypassed), but after a minute or so, they are restored to the hard drive. Trash folder using sudo and rebooting (which makes macOS automatically recreate a clean. #2 Deleting a file triggers the 'This item will be deleted immediately' popup and Trash is bypassed. I've restarted the process many times over the last week. OneDrive says it is up to date, but many files are in fact still not back on the hard drive.

#1 OneDrive seems to download some and then decide it's had enough.

Selecting this (when you can – not all folders show the option on right-clicking), makes OneDrive start downloading files. Supposedly you can change this by selecting 'Always Keep on This Device' in Finder. No question was asked and all local OneDrive files were deleted, bypassing Trash. The new location is /Users//Library/CloudStorage/ and the default behaviour is to leave all files in the cloud and download when needed. I recently upgraded to Monterey (MBP 2018, 16Gb SSD, 2Tb storage).Īs we know, OneDrive's location and default behaviour was changed for Monterey.

Free for apple instal FreeFileSync 12.5