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dustinfreeman
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1 year ago

Policy changes to new files as online-only with File Provider on MacOS?

I am trying to determine the current policy for when files become online-only on a macOS machine that uses File Provider. As I understand it, using File Provider is optional for now, but may become m...
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Rich
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1 year ago
dustinfreeman wrote:

is this no longer the official policy, or has this just been rephrased so the behaviour is just implicit?

Pretty sure it's covered by this line:

Some downloaded files won’t display as occupying disk space.

Which basically means some downloaded files will download as online-only.

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