
IT administrators will also appreciate the standalone OneDrive client for Mac which can be deployed without downloading it from the App Store. The files will be synced to your local OneDrive folder, and you can edit them from there, even if you are offline. This will be a particularly welcome change for Mac users since they’ll now have a seamless way to access files on SharePoint Online team sites. The OneDrive sync client has long been used to keep files synced across devices, but now you can sync SharePoint Online team sites to your OneDrive with the click of a button. The flagship change is the integration between OneDrive and SharePoint Online team sites. I have been encountering this issue the past few months.Highlights of the New OneDrive for Business Features The point of having the OneDrive app on a desktop and laptop is so that it can sync together and be accessible on your devices when needed. It is super inconvenient to go onto the web, log into OneDrive and search for and download x files onto my Macbook Pro just to access and work on a document.

I work on my laptop on the go, (sometimes I’ll have wifi and sometimes not) and when at home I work on my iMac. It may be damaged or use a file format that Preview doesn’t recognize”.įor me, I have checked the syncing, updating iMac and Macbook Pro to Monterey 12.5.1, uninstalling and reinstalling OneDrive, checking permissions, restarting my devices.and there is still the same issue. The error will either say “Couldn’t communicate with helper application” OR it will say “File x could not be opened.

MacOS Monterey & OneDrive issues Does anyone have an issue with opening OneDrive documents across their Apple devices?Įither one of the two errors pop up when I attempt to open a file on my (2018) Macbook Pro’s OneDrive (my (2021) iMac’s OneDrive works fine when I do the same though).
