Microsoft needs to retire the klunky SharePoint ecosystem and start over like they did with IE -> Edge. That was great. Repeat that win.
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Dear @onedrive product team, I ran the latest update and your app turned "Files On-Demand" back on *without my permission*, deleting 114 GIGABYTES of data off my local drive, which I'm now re-syncing. Thanks so much for ruining my Sunday. xoxo.
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UPDATE: MS support confirms the preference was removed. Feature is enabled by default; no way to turn off. Redownloading entire folder doesn't work. In order to restore files they deleted without my knowledge or permission, I have to click each one individually.
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Isn't the primary purpose of the @onedrive app to provide a BACKUP of files? Sure there are other use cases, but I've got plenty of hard drive space. Surely there are a great many other users who don't want Microsoft carelessly deleting their files.
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Wow, that is a horrible UX fail. Somewhere in Redmond, there’s a product team that clearly doesn’t use their own product. Do they offer an API? If so, a script may be able to restore your files. I had to do something similar with Dropbox because of their dumb limits.
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Although I can't tell it to download a whole folder at once, I tried copying a folder to another location, and it downloaded the whole folder to do that, so I guess after work today I will copy the entire 114GB parent folder, since OneDrive is not safe to use.
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Replying to @jasonhuck @onedrive
Agreed. Perhaps it is a way to ensure their customers do not cancel their subscription, since Microsoft now has the only copy of your files. In another context, it would be labeled ‘ransomware’.

Feb 2, 2022 · 2:20 PM UTC

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Replying to @bilcorry @jasonhuck @onedrive
If you are using OneDrive only for backups, I would suggest checking out @Backblaze. They saved me from a hard drive failure, while I booted from a local clone from Carbon Copy Cloner to keep working.
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This is on the corporate laptop, so the decision to use OneDrive wasn't mine. For personal stuff I use CCC and Dropbox, currently.
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