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OneDrive broken on macOS 10.15 Catalina?
I noticed my OneDrive sharing options were missing, and that the icons were also missing from the top of the screen. Rebooting and reinstalling haven't helped. Something trashed by TM backup the othe...
I tried the 16.43..... version above but it didn't work for me either. I THINK I found a workaround for me. It's only been working for a few hours, but so far so good. We'll see...
I found an article that said what the URL was for the autoupdate feature connection. So, I wanted to basically "block" that URL. I edited my /etc/hosts file to add a line for the following:
0.0.0.0. oneclient.sfx.ms
You can flush your DNS cache for good measure, but now when I install version 23.054.0313 that was provided early in this thread, it stays running, and it doesn't look like it's updating. I don't know what else making this change would affect, but since my Office software also can't update due to the OS Version being too low, I don't know of any other Microsoft software I have that would require access to that site. I'll update this thread with status in a day or two.
I found an article that said what the URL was for the autoupdate feature connection. So, I wanted to basically "block" that URL. I edited my /etc/hosts file to add a line for the following:
0.0.0.0. oneclient.sfx.ms
You can flush your DNS cache for good measure, but now when I install version 23.054.0313 that was provided early in this thread, it stays running, and it doesn't look like it's updating. I don't know what else making this change would affect, but since my Office software also can't update due to the OS Version being too low, I don't know of any other Microsoft software I have that would require access to that site. I'll update this thread with status in a day or two.
It's been almost 24 hours and it's still running on the old version after my DNS 'trick'. Hopeful my luck will continue with that workaround.
Hello all,
Charlie47I'm glad you found a solution!! I have the same problem, but since I'm not at all an expert with my mac, I don't know how to make this DNS block. Can you maybe please explain this step by step?
Would be totally amazing.
Cheers
- open Terminal (search spotlight), write/paste sudo nano /etc/hosts and hit return
- write your password
- below the last line of text write/paste 0.0.0.0 oneclient.sfx.ms and hit return (if u see something at the bottom regarding file name or something simply hit return again)
- should be done by now so hit Control + O to save and then Control + X to exit
restart your computer to flush cache (just in case)
go to https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=823060, install the previous version of OneDrive and once that's done it should be working as before (so far it is for me)
thank you sm Charlie47!!
- Hi TeresaCS, many thanks for this, but Microsoft are due (and that is a "how long is a piece o string" due) to get support to me ASAP. I've tried everything and if I do the wrong thing now out of desperation, I think I am opening myself up to potential security threats, so I think I will wait for them today and if they don't come back, which is highly likely, I will try your solution. Many thanks, Schozz
- dfeee77. There are several articles about editing a Mac's hosts file. Here's the one I used...
https://www.imore.com/how-edit-your-macs-hosts-file-and-why-you-would-want
I used the 0.0.0.0 address where the article talks about using the loopback address of 127.0.0.1. That seemed to work for me.
