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1. #Onedrive for mac alternative update
2. #Onedrive for mac alternative windows 8.1
3. #Onedrive for mac alternative download

In fairness, OneDrive for Business does have an option to repair the synced folders but that downloads everything from SharePoint again… and as half of it hadn’t got up there yet that wasn’t going to help much!

#Onedrive for mac alternative download

Some of the errors suggested it was trying to download the cloud copy rather than the local one whilst other times it failed silently. This seemed to unblock things for a while until, eventually, I found myself in a situation where Word wouldn’t open any of the content waiting to sync.

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I even resorted to opening each “stuck file” and closing it again, making sure I didn’t actually change it (clicking the Sign In button will update the document). Sometimes, I found that wasn’t necessary – just by ignoring the “credentials needed” error it might go away after a while! One thing I found that would sometimes kick-start proceedings was (in Word) removing the Connected Service for OneDrive – (and then adding it again, which forces a re-authentication):

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(I’m logged into my Windows 8.1 PC using a Microsoft account, although I can switch to the organisation account that uses the same credentials for Office 365 access).

No good attempting to sign out (and in again) either: Opening a “stuck file” in Word will present a sign-in error: Uploading files directly to OneDrive will change the modified date (perhaps to be expected): Or for telling me which file it’s currently attempting to work with. And it doesn’t seem to have a method for forcing a sync either. It might flag an issue, but there’s no “skip file” option. If it comes up with a problem, it doesn’t seem to skip it and move on – at least not in the way that might be expected. Unfortunately, whilst the OneDrive for Business client is able to sync folders in parallel, it seems to work through a folder in serial. It’s straightforward enough to define folders for syncing into SharePoint Online (which is where OneDrive for Business stores data), and most of my content synced OK but I had one folder of correspondence, going back to my early days of using a PC (some WordStar and WordPerfect files, as well as some very early Word formats in there – right through to current day documents) that was causing difficulties. The One Drive for Business sync engine is “pants” ( definition 3 in the OED). However, after a couple of days trying to force a synchronisation of legacy content into OneDrive for Business ( noting the various restrictions), I have drawn the following conclusion: I could pay for additional Dropbox storage but, frankly, why do I need to, with that much storage included in my Office 365 E1 subscription? I’ve been a Dropbox user for years but with Microsoft’s upgrade of OneDrive for Business (formerly Skydrive Pro) to include 1TB of storage for every Office 365 user, I decided to move the majority of my files to that platform.