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Silver Contributor

Jan 05, 2018

OneDrive Files on Demand for Mac

Forgive me if it has been posted before, I did look around but didn't see anything, but is there going to be a OneDrive Files on Demand for Mac users?

files

office 365

OneDrive for Business

Sync

Ben Swaby

Copper Contributor

Nov 10, 2018

Interesting on your issues. I am testing on about a half dozens Macs now and everything is working great. Only main issues we have had is AV causing files to download and once a day having to do the relaunch command for the context menus to come back. Still haven’t figured that out. The only thing we have seen that’s a little misleading is the initial sync as it comes off as the files are physically downloading, but they are just downloading the file names and some meta type data.

Anonymous

Nov 10, 2018

Ben - Thanks for the quick reply, this is really good to know. Perhaps I'm mistakenly seeing all of the file names coming in, and it is just indexing the directories with file names/folders vs. downloading the actual file. I should look at the properties of the actual files on the machine.

On the 6 or so Macs you are testing it on, are these accounts considered in the "Insider Program" or are they standard Mac users who are pretty simple and not tech savvy (ie. would not be a beta tester). I have a quite a few of the non tech savvy users, so would like for it to be pretty painless for them if I've proven out that it works through my testing first.

Also - It appears I need to not direct these users to the Mac App Store, correct? I believe that version of OneDrive doesn't support Files-On-Demand, if I understand correctly?

Thanks!

Cameron Nielsen
Copper Contributor
Nov 26, 2018
UPDATE: So I clicked the link to download the "18.151.0729.0014" client for enterprise they say is for rolling out today...and I already installed it...so why does my client not say this version number? Ugh, MS...
Cameron Nielsen
Copper Contributor
Nov 26, 2018
So I just downloaded the MacOS 'Enterprise' client supposedly released today, from this website.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/new-onedrive-sync-client-release-notes-845dcf18-f921-435e-bf28-4e24b95e5fc0
Is this supposed to fix my issues?...

I have Version 18.212.1021.0007 (Standalone).
The previous version has been hiccuping on small files and ruining my bootcamp back and forth workflow for the last month. I have 1MB jpegs that haven't synced that I created on October 30th...
Aaron Brooks
Copper Contributor
Nov 10, 2018
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Makes sense - I'll give it a go from the link you provided and report back. Thanks Ben,
see page 2 of this thread if the script doesn't run you can just enter the commands manually in terminal.
Anonymous
Nov 10, 2018
Makes sense - I'll give it a go from the link you provided and report back. Thanks Ben,
Ben Swaby
Copper Contributor
Nov 10, 2018
I would consider only 2 of the 6 people testing as tech savvy. In regards to insider, I have had to enable it for those users in order for it to work. Here is the article that I followed.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/try-files-on-demand-for-mac-529f6d53-e572-4922-a585-e7a318c135f0