Microsoft Releases Preview of Native OneDrive Client for Apple Silicon Macs

[bradman83]

The developer Mac mini was available since June 2020, right?

And the full MS Office suite was M1 native by December 2020. I'd guess MS prioritised that over OneDrive?

Microsoft has been re-writing OneDrive on the Mac side now that Apple finally made its File Provider APIs publicly available. These APIs were supposed have launched on the Mac with Catalina (after being introduced in iOS 11 with the Files app) but they weren’t publicized for Mac until the middle of this year. The result should be better Finder integration since it will use Apple’s own APIs to do so. Microsoft clearly didn’t want to update the existing version for M1 just to turn around and have to update it again for File Provider.

 

[acousticbiker]

Maybe your organization enforces file-on-demand on their admin portal?

Thanks for the thought - I'm an admin and don't see that option on the portal (and I had the option when I was using the Intel build)

just to say that my intel version looked like that before I moved to silicon. In finder you can still right click and select Always Keep on This Device so I don't get why the options for files on demand has changed

Thanks for the suggestion - I don't see that option when I right click in Finder.

This is very strange and affecting usability. I've clicked to go back to Intel build and don't see the Always Keep option, nor do I see it still when I then go back to the AS build.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated!

 

[randyharris]

Thanks for the thought - I'm an admin and don't see that option on the portal (and I had the option when I was using the Intel build)


Thanks for the suggestion - I don't see that option when I right click in Finder.

This is very strange and affecting usability. I've clicked to go back to Intel build and don't see the Always Keep option, nor do I see it still when I then go back to the AS build.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated!

My Intel version of OneDrive had the option a month or so ago to select between Files On-Demand or not, but then it went away, and is still away on the Universal version of the app for me.

 

[svish]

Good to know. Still in pre release though.

 

[Bustycat]

My OneDrive on Monterey was suddenly moved to the new location today and the endless re-syncing (or just re-indexing) over 4 hours is still ongoing for my 300 GB files...

 

[Ningj]

Nice, using consistently less physical memory (40% ish) than the intel/rosetta version.

 

[acousticbiker]

Thanks for the thought - I'm an admin and don't see that option on the portal (and I had the option when I was using the Intel build)


Thanks for the suggestion - I don't see that option when I right click in Finder.

This is very strange and affecting usability. I've clicked to go back to Intel build and don't see the Always Keep option, nor do I see it still when I then go back to the AS build.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated!

Ok, right-clicking the OneDrive icon in the sidebar didn't show the Always Keep option but right-clicking individual folders did. Not ideal, but I guess that's a workaround for now until I hear back from support.

 

[DudiQ]

I had the version 21.245.1128.0001 already but intel and the button was there but afer clicking I was just getting pop-up saying that it will update and it didn't. So I downloaded the one linked above, upgraded fine without uninstalling the previous one. And... it takes 500 mb of memory when running compared to over 2gb before. Hallelujah!

 

[Aggedor]

I went back to the Intel version. The Apple Silicon one set my OneDrive folder to online-only (whatever that state is called), and then when I tried to download a couple of folders I need local copies of, it jammed and would never update. Uninstalled the whole thing and reinstalled the Intel release, and now it is resynching everything (which will take days, based on my initial install on this M1 MBA back in February!).

Oh well. Still, good to know they are working on it.

 

[Bustycat]

I went back to the Intel version. The Apple Silicon one set my OneDrive folder to online-only (whatever that state is called), and then when I tried to download a couple of folders I need local copies of, it jammed and would never update. Uninstalled the whole thing and reinstalled the Intel release, and now it is resynching everything (which will take days, based on my initial install on this M1 MBA back in February!).

Oh well. Still, good to know they are working on it.

You may be forced to re-syncing (or re-downloading) again as OneDrive is adopting Apple’s File Provider. I ended up re-downloading everything.

 

[michelg1970]

Symlinks for my music, movies, download folder did not work anymore and also OneDrive folder itself showed up as symlink. Switched back to the Intel version and will wait a bit...

 

[urbanmacUser]

Or eliminate Teams and don’t replace it at all. That would be best, I think.

Teams on Electron is being dropped and moving to WebView2 platform. Finally MS realised Electron is crap

 

[Bustycat]

File on-demand becomes unreliable but you cannot disable it now.

 

[Aggedor]

You may be forced to re-syncing (or re-downloading) again as OneDrive is adopting Apple’s File Provider. I ended up re-downloading everything.

Yeah, after going back to the Intel version, that ALSO got stuck. So I unstailled, unsynched, signed-out, reinstalled the AS version, and set it up fresh. Now it is working perfectly...

File on-demand becomes unreliable but you cannot disable it now.
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...but yes, the on-demand/local thing doesn't seem to be quiet working as it should. Mind you, this is a preview release. By setting up a completely fresh OneDrive install and synch, now all my files are on-demand only. As I've been working, files I need have been downloaded with no problem. Last time I tried this install, I tried to download everything, but that is what got jammed before.

 

[jace88]

Thanks to everyone who beta tested it here... scared me away from signing up to try it out.

 

[tesna]

whie others lost the ability to keep all files local, I lost the ability of files on demand lmao. Am I the only one does not have files on demand? I need this since my onedrive files is like 600GB++ and I only have 512GB SSD on my mbp 14 .

I tried to delete the Apple silicon version and installing back the intel version, still no luck :O the option just gone....

 

[ice29]

Does this work for you in 12.1 ? Mine always crashes during start, I have uninstalled it, deleted all traces, installed again but no luck
And the non-native app does not work either...

 

[tesna]

Does this work for you in 12.1 ? Mine always crashes during start, I have uninstalled it, deleted all traces, installed again but no luck
And the non-native app does not work either...

it does work, just no files on demand feature for me I am also on 12.1

 

[Aggedor]

For uninstalling, make sure you also UNLINK your computer, and then set OneDrive up completely from scratch. For the uninstall, remove all traces of it. I use an app called AppCleaner, but there are others available that will find and delete any dependences (or look up how to do it manually).

I had to do all this twice - went from Intel OneDrive to Apple, it got jammed, went back to Intel, that got jammed, then did a total NUKE IT FROM ORBIT and reinstaleld the Apple version. So far, it is working. It was a pain, but I got there.

 

[ice29]

I can't unlink it since it won't start... I have also removed all traces of OneDrive that I could find with "sudo find..." but no luck. If I try the Intel-one it will show a transparent window with beachball forever until I kill it, the apple-one will go straight into a crash and report.

Edit: tried Appcleaner since it found slightly more links/files, but no luck, the same behavior, always getting crash after launching the app (x86 version shows a strange transparent window, haha)

 

[Aggedor]

You might be able to unlink if you go to onedrive.live.com or your online Microsoft account, and remove the device/computer?

 

[tesna]

somehow installing back the appstore version of onedrive brings back the files on demand for me. unlink device, and then install the intel version from microsoft site bam no files on demand. installing the m1 version from microsoft site also no files on demand.

i'm getting frustated, maybe I'll try to factory resets my mbp to nuke everything.

EDIT: factory resets MBP fix everything. Now files on demand appears on apple m1 version of OneDrive

 

[MacUser58249]

Ever since the upgrade too 21.245.1128 (Apple Silicon or Intel), OneDrive seems to be using Apple File Provider and moved locations of local files. Issue is that Spotlight does not seem to index this new location. I tried rebuilding the index, but no luck.

Anyone else experience this?

 

[ice29]

I found my issue, it's actually the monitor connected with USB-C - DP cable to my macbook that causes this... using HDMI cable or macbook with open lid fixes the issue and OneDrive starts properly :O Also when I set the monitor to DP1.1 instead of DP1.2 (but then it has bad colors)
I have also seen other apps crashing (CS:GO, OpenRA) so it must be 12.1 that broke DP1.2

 

[Aggedor]

Ever since the upgrade too 21.245.1128 (Apple Silicon or Intel), OneDrive seems to be using Apple File Provider and moved locations of local files. Issue is that Spotlight does not seem to index this new location. I tried rebuilding the index, but no luck.

Anyone else experience this?

I did notice that my OneDrive folder was not searchable (as in, got no results), but I thought it was a synch issue. Are you saying they've changed something that makes it un-indexable?

Edit: Having looked at the OneDrive folder in my user folder, I can see that it is now an alias, not a folder. When I go to show original, I get "OneDrive", which has no path or point of origin. It can't be reindexed in Spotlight, and it is unsearchable.

This... is a problem! All of my work files are in there, and I need to search them.