I would like to use OneDrive on Ubuntu, May be working with all or some folders. Since there is no office OneDrive client in Linux, I've searched online and found "https://rclone.org/onedrive/" but not sure how secure it is or is there any other alternative out there?

muratkazanova I am the maintainer of the free OneDrive Client for Linux, which supports OneDrive Personal, OneDrive for Business, OneDrive for Office365 and Sharepoint, and fully supports Azure National Cloud Deployments for those that require it. It fully supports shared folders - both OneDrive Personal and OneDrive Business Shared Folders. For further information & details:https://abraunegg.github.iohttps://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/This is an actively maintained client which was originally forked from the 'skilion' client (which unfortunately most of the Internet still references). The 'skilion' client was abandoned in 2018.

AFAIK, Microsoft has not shared any plans to support Linux in regards of ODFB. However, it seems there is an open source project about OneDrive Consumer support in Linux: https://askubuntu.com/questions/804301/how-to-sync-onedrive-business-office-365-on-linux

Starting with Ubuntu 24.04, OneDrive and other cloud services are supported out of the box. Just go to settings > accounts. Enable the Microsoft 365 account, sign in and boom, done!!Just go to files and you will see a shiny network connection to your OneDrive.

jlgarnier Glad you found the tool useful 🙂 In regards to your questions:> onedrive --synchronize --single-directory What this does is perform a single sync, of the single directory specified. Once the sync has finished, thats it. > 1. If the sync is automatically done in the background when I edit files in the local storage With your existing command, no - there is no automatic sync occurring. However, if you switch '--synchronize' for '--monitor' this will continually sync until you exit the application - ie - sync automatically. > 2. If I have to create and customize the config file Generally you do not need to do this unless you want to change some of the default options. Best read the help / man page for assistance on the configuration options. > 3. If I also need to create the sync_list file Generally no - you do not need to create this file, unless you want to be super specific about what needs to be synced > 4. If I need to run onedrive as a system service to get automatic sync That is generally the best way to configure automatic and constant sync in the background to occur. Feel free to create questions on GitHub (https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/) as this is where most questions & a wealth of knowledge in closed cases sit.

If you're looking for something a bit more polished and powerful, check out https://www.expandrive.com It has deb/rpm/AppImage packages and runs on nearly all linux distros. There is a desktop edition as well as a server edition that runs headless. Mounting specific sharepoint sites, remote paths, etc are all supported as well as offline mode and async writes. Also built to withstand reboots, transient networks, etc.

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Gabi_Manrique
Copper Contributor
May 01, 2021
muratkazanova
obrobertsen
Copper Contributor
Nov 26, 2020
muratkazanova

I have been using InSync (paid) and no problems at all
https://www.insynchq.com/
jsmpv
Copper Contributor
Oct 14, 2020
If you're looking for something a bit more polished and powerful, check out https://www.expandrive.com

It has deb/rpm/AppImage packages and runs on nearly all linux distros. There is a desktop edition as well as a server edition that runs headless. Mounting specific sharepoint sites, remote paths, etc are all supported as well as offline mode and async writes. Also built to withstand reboots, transient networks, etc.
- CNUAUK
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 27, 2023
  You should mention there is a charge for using your product, not all of us have such instant purchase power
- Boernie
  Copper Contributor
  Aug 04, 2021
  jsmpvSomething about "polished and powerful": Be aware, that there is no offline sync feature in the linux version. I complained about that already over a year ago, but all I get are empty promises, that this feature will be implemented soon.
abraunegg
Iron Contributor
Jul 14, 2020
muratkazanova
I am the maintainer of the free OneDrive Client for Linux, which supports OneDrive Personal, OneDrive for Business, OneDrive for Office365 and Sharepoint, and fully supports Azure National Cloud Deployments for those that require it. It fully supports shared folders - both OneDrive Personal and OneDrive Business Shared Folders.

For further information & details:
https://abraunegg.github.io
https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/
This is an actively maintained client which was originally forked from the 'skilion' client (which unfortunately most of the Internet still references). The 'skilion' client was abandoned in 2018.
- Julian_GC
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 16, 2024
  This is a very neat app, it works very good for me. I have been using it regularly through the GUI provided by another developer: https://github.com/bpozdena/OneDriveGUI
  (you need to install both).
  Thanks a lot for sharing your work!
- vetterworld
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 23, 2023
  abraunegg
  Hey, could you help out a dumb guy like me? How do I change the location that it used on my computer? I need to switch it a different drive. It's mint it's mint 21.1 cinnamon, in case that matters.
  - abraunegg
    Iron Contributor
    Feb 23, 2023
    vetterworld
    To answer questions like this it is better that you ask your question on GitHub - https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive under 'Discussions'
- chbrandt
  Copper Contributor
  Oct 06, 2021
  Amazing work! After reading this I went there and deployed the docker setup. Syncing is going on and looks really good so far. Kudos abraunegg
jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Apr 19, 2020
AFAIK, Microsoft has not shared any plans to support Linux in regards of ODFB. However, it seems there is an open source project about OneDrive Consumer support in Linux: https://askubuntu.com/questions/804301/how-to-sync-onedrive-business-office-365-on-linux
- muratkazanova
  Brass Contributor
  Apr 19, 2020
  Thank you, I’ll check it.

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