I was one of the SharePoint bods at my last job and we would steer people from SharePoint sync if we could - it’s only needed if you must have offline access to your documents and it caused no end of issues shortly after I joined in 2018. I believe MS improved it quite dramatically about 6 months later but it wasn’t something we ever used much. This was all done on Windows and whilst I used SharePoint and OneDrive at home on my MacBook it was done on Catalina.
OneDrive is stored in SharePoint as you will see if you look at its URL which I think begins my.sharepoint I found the OneDrive app to be reliable and straightforward on Catalina, but I’ve never tried on Big Sur. It has a web interface via MS 365 which works pretty well most of the time. Stephen You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung > On 14 Jan 2021, at 14:53, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, both. Very helpful. I'll try the folder by folder sync and see how > we go. One of the problems seems to be that we also use SharePoint sync, and > OneDrive syncs both through the same app. Fine in principle, but I dare to > suggest it just gets confused as to what's my OneDrive, what's SharePoint, > and loses all directory mapping for no reason. > > Will see if the trillion dollar MS can fix these niggles ;) > >> On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 09:44:29 UTC [email protected] wrote: >> I’ve found exactly what’s described on Mojave FWIW. I wouldn’t expect a fix >> any time soon! But I found it was particular folders being synced that set >> this off. When I removed it, it seemed to behave. If it’s critical, try >> removing all sync folders and only adding them back one at a time. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> -Jason >> ---------------------------------- >> Sent from my iPhone >> ---------------------------------- >> >> On 14 Jan 2021 at 09:33:31 GMT, Tony Crooks <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I’ve read this is a known problem on Big Sur - something of concern for >> businesses that operate a BYOD policy. You’d need to check a Windows forum >> that has OneDrive threads for workarounds. I believe that MS is working on >> new universal version of the app for macOS >> >> -- >> Tony Crooks >> [email protected] >> +44 7428 706227 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/CAHkKbUB-1MevUESHMj-43%3DM%3Dg3eZpfkfwjsrN1pOMcodnmUzAQ%40mail.gmail.com. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/bf0bcbb5-c911-401a-a4bb-4a6ee9faea8dn%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/DF5BA9EB-D3E2-480C-BFDD-34C6366809C2%40icloud.com.
