![]() ![]() Once the files are in the cache folder the files in ~/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive will be marked as purgeable so you can copy over the next batch of files. ODContainer cache folder on the external drive (where it will upload to Microsoft’s servers from). ![]() You have to add it in segments that fit within the available disk space, as it has to first be copied to ~/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive, after which OneDrive will copy it to the. on an external drive) that’s larger than the space available on the disk holding your home directory, you can’t add it to OneDrive all at once. One side-effect of this architecture is that if you have a folder (e.g. So if you’re offline, all the files marked to keep on device are available to you, even if they’re not in CloudStorage/OneDrive when you go offline. All user interaction is with the CloudStorage/OneDrive folder – including setting retention rules, even though the retention actually takes place in the cache folder. The user interacts with the CloudStorage/OneDrive folder (which MacOS sees as the sync folder), and this folder retrieves and stores data from/to the. ODContainer) that follows the retention rules you’ve set and communicates with Microsoft’s cloud storage. ![]() I visualise it as: □user ~/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive /Volumes/ExternalDrive/OneDrive/.ODContainer So when it needs a file, it ‘downloads’ it from the cache directory, and when a file is changed or created, it ‘uploads’ the changes back to the cache directory (on the external drive). But it seems that the CloudStorage location considers the cache directory to be the ‘remote’ cloud source. The files in the CloudStorage location aren’t ‘linked’ to the cache directory – they are separate files that are downloaded and purged (replaced with placeholders) as needed, with no guarantee that any of them will keep their data on the disk. ![]() when new changes have been saved but not yet sync’ed).įrom what I’ve observed (I’m helping an organisation move their file server to OneDrive), the cache directory on the external drive is your local copy of the OneDrive files as you say – those that are selected to remain on the device, and those in active use. I assume files in the CloudStorage location exist as links to this cache directory for these “always available” files and when the local version differs from the remote version (e.g. ![]()
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