OneDrive broken on macOS 10.15 Catalina?

turingtest2There's a lot of good info and work around here, however none worked for me. I did however, discover one (perhaps mentioned in the posts but didn't read them all in-dept), which so far (2 weeks) still works. All the other methods I tried listed here inevitably saw my OD updated to the bricked version. About my setup:

• MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013)
• Max OS available on this hardware: MacOS Catalina 10.15. (which is now officially unsupported by MS according the MS rep)

This is where things circular. Mac doesn't allow OS upgrade beyond the above -> MS no longer supports above MacOS for OD issues -> MS autoupdates OD anyway, which doesn't work but can't help since it's unsupported OS. Hence why MS support is giving all the fancy work around, except none worked for me until I did the following:

• Turn Off Wifi (as other's have mentioned)
• Restored OD from a Time Machine backup from Dec 10, 2022 (launch Time Machine, find the date you want, navigate Finder to Applications from that date, click to highlight then click on restore). (some say OD xxx.xxx.003 Standalone works but it didn't for me).
• Once restored, right click on OD from Applications and click on "Show Package Contents"
• Click on "Contents"
• Delete everything that has the word "update" in the root of Contents (there should be 4, if I remember correctly)
• Turn on Wifi then try launching OD.

Note: if you don't have a Time Machine backup, then try to find a version which others here say works then follow the steps above.

Good luck!