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Jeffrey Allen
Jan 05, 2018Silver Contributor
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?
- Ben SwabyCopper ContributorWe are seeing an issue were Mac computers have to relaunch finder for the context menu and icons to come back for on demand options. I'm not sure if this is a MoJave bug or OneDrive at this point. Anyone else seen this? OneDrive is set as an extension on the Mac, so I wouldn't think it would be that as it does work.
- Jean-Michel_Le_GoffCopper Contributor
Hello,
Any Update to this topic from Microsoft?
When the OneDrive or Sharepoint is quite large, permanent syncing is really tedious.
Files on Demand is really mandatory also on Mac...Many Thanks
- DeletedWell. Here you guys go 😉 Mac version available soon! https://support.office.com/en-us/article/try-files-on-demand-for-mac-529f6d53-e572-4922-a585-e7a318c135f0
- Aaron BrooksCopper Contributor
It seems to work quite well! Hooray!
- DeletedYou won't hear anything till Ignite if anything. We will know more then, if you don't hear anything at Ignite then don't expect it for a long time :P.
- Cristhian VieiraCopper ContributorI use odrive solution. https://www.odrive.com/
- Ryan BoydCopper Contributor
Work around for Files On Demand for MAC
http://appleworkaround.com/2018/07/24/on-demand-onedrive-mac-and-apple/
Hope this helps out
I created this guide I hope it helps
- Sam RobertsBrass Contributor
Any update on when the Mac users would get the 'Files on Demand' option in their One Drive for Business?
Much needed feature! Can't wait!! Thanks
Sam
Nothing has been announced, I'm sure Microsoft appreciate how much people would want it, but it might also require Apple to provide additional hooks in OSX to make it work. I would look to see if anything on this gets announced at Ignite conference in September.
- Phil LyleBrass Contributor
Steven Collier Maybe they can just use the same hooks Google is using? :)
- Antony FearnCopper Contributor
Come on Microsoft. Give us an update on this.... unless its included in Feature ID: 23759 of the 365 roadmap, then I can't see any progress or plans.
Its a game changer for users and IT Teams.
Without it data governance for Mac users become needlessly more complicated than it might be.
- Cristhian VieiraCopper Contributor
We'll need this feature, if it's should called a feature, it's a must have. Please.
- DeletedIt’s in development. I wouldn’t expect anything until ignite as far as announcements
- Jeffrey AllenSilver Contributor
Hey Microsoft! Any update on when this will be released???? The Uservoice for this says thinking about since last September. https://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/262982-onedrive/suggestions/19320118-on-demand-sync-for-mac
- Brendan WalkerCopper Contributor
My users cry for this update nearly every week now having seen their PC counterparts using it.
- Jeffrey AllenSilver ContributorI have a few Mac users who are on the verge of totally moving to O365 and dropping other services and join with the rest of the staff who are on Windows and O365 when this feature rolls out.
- Brendan WalkerCopper Contributor
This is a must have feature that needs to be released ASAP! It's really disjointed that Windows 10 users in my environment have this feature but MacOS users who already have an tough time with compatibility and now Airport Time Capsules being discontinued.... This feature would be *incredibly* helpful
Please please please let me keep Office 365 for my who environment, it's things like this that make it difficult for me to argue the business case for Mac being on OneDrive/Teams/Sharepoint.
The argument for Marketing to use Dropbox becomes stronger and louder every day...
- Cameron NielsenCopper Contributor
This is a must-have. This is going to totally screw up my workflow since China is cracking down on Google Drive File Stream. Please do this ASAP.
- jsmpvCopper Contributor
Not exactly the same but you can use ExpanDrive to get OneDrive Files on Demand on the Mac. It lets you mount OneDrive/OneDrive for Business and Sharepoint as a network drive [with offline sync, etc] on Mac and Windows.
- Brendan WalkerCopper Contributor
Hahah I clicked on Store and saw the pricing and immediately X'd out
$149 for one user to have what is a tick box feature for Windows users and will soon be a feature for MacOS too...
I wouldn't be buying shares in ExpanDrive Inc! Their business model is about to crumble
- Aaron BrooksCopper Contributor
I think you misread - it's $49 for 1 user NOT $149