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Copper Contributor

Jun 22, 2020

Sharepoint / One Drive Files on demand for High Sierra OS

I have two office macs that are running High Sierra OS. I have over 130gb of files stored in sharepoint and would like to access them via the finder on the mac, but all I can see is the option to syn...

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PeterRising

MVP

Jun 22, 2020

garethalliance

I'm afraid that to use files on demand foe OneDrive in Mac OS, you need version 10.14 or newer as per https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/save-disk-space-with-onedrive-files-on-demand-for-mac-529f6d53-e572-4922-a585-e7a318c135f0?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

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garethalliance
Copper Contributor
Jun 22, 2020
Thanks PeterRising for your help.
This is really disappointing for us as it doesn't make it user friendly or very efficient when we have to access all of our files and folders through a web browser, and storing them locally on HDD isn't an option due to the file sizes. Looks like its back to Dropbox we go...
- PeterRising
  MVP
  Jun 22, 2020
  garethalliance
  
  Mac devices not capable of supporting newer OS versions?
  - garethalliance
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 22, 2020
    PeterRising Unfortunately 2 of our office macs can only go up to High Sierra which is a couple of years behind what they need to be in order for the files on demand to work. Might be a little bit of an overkill to go out and get two brand new Macs for this!