I am a student and OneDrive is both incredibly helpful and incredibly aggrevating. I love that there is an app for OneDrive on the Mac App store. However, two things are clear. Firstly, It's not optimized for Apple Silicon. Rosetta 2 makes it work 98% of the time but it seems like updating and signing out and back into my Microsoft Account breaks OneDrive in ways that I feel like relate to the fact it hasn't been properly recomplied. A company as big as Microsoft should be able to put a team on that for a week and make it compatible for Apple Silicon. Additionally, it hasn't been updated for Monterey at the time of this writing. When I updated to Monterey and opened OneDrive, some very important files of mine were telling me they were corrupted and I had a small panic attack trying to make copies of them and upload them again. I think everything has been saved but how can teams of 3 developers make their apps prepped for Monterey weeks before Microsoft can? Look, when OneDrive works, it works really well and I actually enjoy using it. When it doesn't work however, it's anxiety provoking and makes me want to tear my hair out.

I use this on my Mac, phone, and iPad for working on a novel series. I know it was garbage as Skydrive. I still used it. I know it needed work at Onedrive. I stuck with it. Then i left the Surface behind and went back to Mac, and yes it took a while to get better on the Apple infrastructure, but it finally caught up. I can make an edit on my iPad and the file updates within 2-3 seconds on my Macbook. That’s as close to realtime as it gets. The hiccups are rare, and when I have one, I can go into the version history of a file and reload that properly. And I’m pulling files 20-30 times a day because I work on my series by chapter. I have 13 volumes; it’s a LOT of chapters. Word might pull an old version that was saved on the M1 and save the old version over that file so it shows up that way on my iPad or M4. But I can open the version history and grab the right version and fix it quick and easy. No anxiety, no drama. And that digital handshake hiccup might happen once in an entire month, and it’s so easy to fix that I don’t even stress about it. That’s what Word, Notes, and Onedrive has become for me. Consistency and the ability to fix a hiccup effortlessly. And when my wife goes to work on a file from our series over on her Surface, she can work on it with me in real time effortlessly. It’s awesome.

The user experience with this application is so 'blah' it's not even funny. The first few iterations of OneDrive were barely passable as a sync tool for SharePoint. With all the rave reviews on this application I'm really curious what horrible software people live with that makes this look good. The user experience of other applications like DropBox is very good and well integrated with the OS. As an example a simple right-click and you have a link to email off to someone as a one-time access or direct link if it is shared. OneDrive has no concept of a file repository with a local synced copy. It is simply a basic file sync tool for the fledgeling SharePoint experience. I'm sure if you don't use SharePoint in a corporate environment and use OneDrive to sync your local Micro$soft application documents it's a beautiful thing. However, in the corporate setting where we are basically forced to use SharePoint this tool does nothing more than get a local copy on your computer without any other interaction which is pitiful. Add to the list is the "processing" message that doesn't go away after you open the app along with no "pause" button. It's really the simple things that matter with user experience and I know M$ doesn't make any money licensing OneDrive so it will undoutably remain pitifully featuerd behind its peers.

I am disappointed and frustrated by the last two updates. OneDrive had been working well for me for 6 months in syncing work files between my work computer and my home computer. Recently, after updating the OneDrive app at home, the update prompted me to sign into my organization again, but it couldn’t “locate” a place to sync my files. Basically, it couldn’t detect that I already had OneDrive installed and was trying to create a OneDrive folder again. It wouldn’t sync my existing folders, and instead gave me a repeated error message (“Your OneDrive folder can’t be created in the location you selected: Try a different location. Make sure that the location isn't on a removable drive, or on a disk that has a case-sensitive format”). The first time that this happened, I managed to work around it by force-quitting OneDrive, uninstalling it, wiping the existing local OneDrive folder on my home computer, and then reinstalling OneDrive as though setting it up on a new computer. That may have been a fluke because a few months later, I encountered the same problem with a new update. I’ve been going through the same process—and it’s not working.In short, I’m unable to use OneDrive on my home Mac. It’s currently useless to me, and my only recourse now is to migrate content to another cloud service. I reported this to Support the first time. I’m going to report it again. One star.