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Stephen Rose
Former Employee
Dec 20, 2016

Announcement: OneDrive Sync Updates

All of us here on the OneDrive Team have been hard at work delivering many of the OneDrive sync client updates we communicated at Ignite to further improve the user experience and administration of s...
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Paul Youngberg
Iron Contributor
Jan 17, 2017
I banged my head into the wall with this one for a while. In the end switching browsers fixed it for me. For some PCs switching from Chrome to IE was the fix, for others it was switching from IE to Chrome!
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Ed Hansberry
Brass Contributor
Jan 17, 2017
Paul Youngberg wrote:
I banged my head into the wall with this one for a while. In the end switching browsers fixed it for me. For some PCs switching from Chrome to IE was the fix, for others it was switching from IE to Chrome!

What do you mean "switch." I am unclear how the browser fits in to this scenario. Temporarily change the default browser? Simply open up the other browser?

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    Peter Liang
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 19, 2017

    I'm also interested in the future of the Mac desktop sync client updates... any clue as to when the ability to sync shared folders will be rolled out?

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      Kenneth Boutrup
      Copper Contributor
      Mar 10, 2017
      Peter Liang wrote:

      I'm also interested in the future of the Mac desktop sync client updates... any clue as to when the ability to sync shared folders will be rolled out?

      +1 Peter

      Missing this feature as well. Our org has started to open up for Outlook Groups, for projects and smaller teams but unfortunately thouse on Mac's (several 1000'sn) cant use the sharepoint sync feature.

      ODfB work great with in the st.alone client (thanks of that btw) and there is a "https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Enable-users-to-sync-SharePoint-files-with-the-new-OneDrive-sync-client-22e1f635-fb89-49e0-a176-edab26f69614?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US" (not so great) but it does not work in my case.

      In Safari, When you hit the sync button -> sync now, in SP Documents folder it asks you for permison to open ODfB client, but you dont get the option to select the folder and sync it to you Mac.

      in Chrome it does not open the ODfB client.

      • Peter Liang's avatar
        Peter Liang
        Copper Contributor
        May 15, 2017

        Just noticed an announcement in our admin message center (dated 5/8/17) about upcoming improvements to the "sharing experience" for OneDrive for Business (specifically mentioning the sync clients).  Does anyone from the community know if this might have anything to do with the/my eagerly-awaited Mac desktop sync client shared folder functionality?

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