As per all Microsoft software - its written by Microsoft and as such they have no idea of the Mac Universe as an ongoing OS, They write like programmers they think like programmers and they dont employ any designers / artwork people or people who design interfaces , they don’t appear to test out their products very thougherly - The case in point is that it fails on repeated occasions, and it fails in 2 specific areas - No 1) it does not like large files - ie over 2 gb - it treats them with contempt and more often than not won’t back them up properly - this has been ongoing since version 1 (If there was a version 1) and the most frustrating is its funny over file names - its like going back to MSDOS of the 70’s ! - If for instance you have an ical calendar backup, if you right click on these on the mac and choose “show package Contents” it consisits of 100’s or 1000’s of assosciated files, and lots have odd names and full stops forward slash / in the names - it does not like these 1 little bit ! again this has been ongoing since early versions, and the only rels work round is to comprees the file before hand, these things are not an issue in Dropbox which works faultlessly - i understand that drop box want £70 a yera for their system , but it works 100% - Microsoft the Multi Million Pound company should be able to run rings around these other services - but they dont and i always wonder why ?

OneDrive has always been working well enough for me on Windows, and I would say the same about MacOS version, BUT. It doesn't behave the same as on Windows. On Windows it creates placeholders for whole directory/file structure, making it quickly browsable and searchable. On MacOS, however, it doesn't create placeholders for the whole directory tree, which leads to these problems: 1. When you browse to a directory you didn't browse on this machine before (or it was previously evicted from disk) it requires internet connection to load directory content, and takes some time. 2. Since there are no placeholders and metadata for child dirs and files in such a directory, it's not indexed by Spotlight Search and is essentially not searchable in any way. The latter is practically a show stopper: who wants to dig into directories structure every time they need some file while you could just search for it in Spotlight? MacOS have all needed APIs to be able to download folder contents (without downloading files). And iCloud Drive doesn't seem to have this problem.

Simply won’t open. The title is the error message. Useful as a handbrake on a canoe. Of course being OS X rather than Windows I can’t even go in and shut down the individual task that is sticking (there is something running, because it tells me so if I try to delete the app).So two vast companies (MS and Apple) combine in a perfect storm of software that is utterly useless and making money off it. Yeah, I know the app is free, but I am trying to link two accounts to it, both paid for. And of course Apple thinks this is best (because their target customer is an idiot who knows nothing about computers, so they don’t want him to have any control) and Microsoft customer services is just irritatin.I followed a link from the OneDrive help page to a live chat, explained my problem in detail. After they took my details and went off to get more expertise, the “more expertise” asked me again for my problem (unable to communicate with first lady, I assume, and too lazy to scroll up a page) with Office. No, I explain, the problem is with OneDrive. Oh he explains, you’ve come to the wrong place. Even though your OneDrive app is linked to two Office 365 accounts, one business one home, you can’t possibly have the good customer services. You have to fill out a comment form and wait an unspecified time. So why did your colleague not tell me this 15 minutes ago when I told her my problem was with OneDrive? Why does the OneDrive help page have a link that sends me here? Most of wall why? Why can you not deal with something that comes as part of the packages I’ve bought and paid for?

I had to change my password, so that meant signing in again on several different laptops in different locations. The first problem was simply no longer being able to sign in (and checking I was using the correct new password by singing in without hassles online.. I finally solved that by - several times - deleting the Onedrive app and re-installing it. As I say, I had to do this several times before I could succeed. WHY that hassle, suddenly.The next problem was that although each laptop - obviously - had a dedicated One Drive folder (and thank goodness my main laptop at home signed in without hassle), the app did NOT downloaded the latest version of files at all. It simply didn’t, which pretty much defeats the object of using One Drive to access the SAME files in different locations.I am now in the proces of AGAIN downloading the app from the App Store in the hope I can solve the problem, but I’m not holding my breath.I have scoured the net for solutions or accounts of the same happening but have so far not found any. And criminially Microsoft have NO advice, help or tips at all.All this after using One Drive without hassles for several years, so what the hell is going on? It was simple - necessary - password update which led to this trouble but boy is it blood frustarting. If anyone at Microsoft reads this, GET IN TOUCH!