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Sync external OneDrive shared folders
You cannot sync folders shared from a user belonging to another organization.
This is really going more & more difficult to sync external libraries...
First we had to re-enable groove by adding the registry key to prevent uninstall of the "OneDrive for business" (aka groove) when installing the click2run version of Office (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/changes-to-the-previous-onedrive-sync-client-groove-exe-in-office-2016-click-to-run-3eff17b9-c709-462f-946c-17719af68aca )
We can still copy/paste the URL of the SharePoint library we need to sync, but most of the time, the sync start to fail and there is no way to fix it other than stopping the library sync, deleting the synced file on the compuer, restart the Library sync...
Anyway when it comes to SharePoint libraries created with Teams (Office365 Groups), the groove sync seems not to be possible !
This is really messy ! When everything will be available with the new client ?
Great Antoine that you keep this issue fresh. We are preparing to open a DropBox for Business account to support a few specific teams that must allow offline file sync with external team members. Obviously not our preferred solution, but we also do not want to get into the business of creating new Office 365 user accounts for every external user - they could add-up to more licences than our own employees!
Hi Ian,
Be careful with Dropbox fur business. We were using it before. As far as I remember, If you share files with external people, they will be limited to 2GB storage (otherwise they will have to pay Dropbox for extra storage)...
Antoine HESKIA wrote:Hi Ian,
Be careful with Dropbox fur business. We were using it before. As far as I remember, If you share files with external people, they will be limited to 2GB storage (otherwise they will have to pay Dropbox for extra storage)...
Exactly. DropBox is no magic bullet, so I am hoping this message gets out as well :-)