The desktop and modern apps on Windows 8.1 require you to log in to the computer with a Microsoft Account in order to access any functionality at all. This dramatically limits my ability to use OneDrive due to two distinct situations that affect me.

1) IT policy at my day-job company allows me to have personal content on my work machine within certain boundaries, but Group Policy prohibits logging into our machines with a Microsoft Account. This means that I can't access any consumer OneDrive content on such devices without going through the website.

2) I keep a separate Microsoft Account for (night-job) business-related activity, which includes shared OneDrive resources. I would like to be able to use the OneDrive modern app to browse and access these while still having my personal account synchronize files with my local file system. My current way of keeping the personal and professional aspects of my life organized sanely is to log in with a local account and log in to each app separately. This is totally incompatible with OneDrive and I don't see a satisfactory workaround.

Unlike another suggestion [1] I don't see any need to use multiple accounts for synchronization or even different accounts per app (considering modern and desktop to be two different apps). I just want to be able to access basic functionality without being forced to a specific authentication workflow on my main user profile.

[1] https://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/262982-general/suggestions/6327047-allow-multiple-onedrive-accounts-integrated-into-w

It would be great if this was possible to specify MIME/file types on web apps file picker. Almost every other file picker on the market allow for this.

For example, Dropbox allows to set a list of file extensions to only allow the user to select files with the specified extensions through the following API option:

options = {

    // Optional. This is a list of file extensions. If specified, the user will

    // only be able to select files with these extensions. You may also specify

    // file types, such as "video" or "images" in the list. For more information,

    // see File types below. By default, all extensions are allowed.

extensions: ['.pdf', '.doc', '.docx']
}

Dropbox.choose(options);

Or as an another example, Google allows for the same feature through the following API:

var docsView = new google.picker.DocsView(google.picker.ViewId.DOCS);
docsView.setIncludeFolders(true);
docsView.setMimeTypes("application/rtf,application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text,application/pdf,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document");

Thanks a lot. :)

I have looked through the forum and this question was asked FOUR YEARS ago with still no fix as of July 2017.

I have many files with very long, similar names and I need to be able to see the entire name of each one. The iOS app has the files organized life to right with truncated file names and there is no way to view them without leaving the current view to open each individual file.

This can be fixed by either:
1) organizing files in a single vertical column like on PC
2) create a way of viewing the full file name without having to open the file

For those of us with Office 365 business subscriptions, we would like the ability to NOT install the current OneDrive for Business Sync Client and we would like the ability to UNINSTALL the client as part of Office 365 setup. Stopping sync of folders and leaving the buggy program running is not an acceptable solution as one is only a click away from starting to sync with files on the web.

The sync problems include the possibility of incorrect sync by the client and subsequent loss of data so until Microsoft have fixed the sync problem allow us to uninstall it.

When using OneDrive for Business in Office 365, it's easy to copy/move files to another folder within OneDrive using the web interface. Using the web interface it's impossible to copy/move files from the user's OD4B to an Office 365 Group documents folder directly. To copy or move a file from the OD4B to a group's document folder, you have to download the file from OD4B and upload it to the group's document folder, or sync the OD4B and the group's document folder and move/copy the file locally.

My suggestion is to add the option to the web interface for the OD4B and group's document folder to easy copy/move files between the OD4B and group's document folder (and visa versa).

Hi,

Trying to work with pdfs stored on onedrive through the Android app is incredibly frustrating.

There is a giant black bar at the top with nothing other than a back button and a large orange circle for annotation tools. This makes seeing the pdf very hard as these UI elements get in the way.

Also there is no search capability.

Either make this viewer better or remove it so we can use some other android pdf viewer. Actually we should be able to use any other pdf viewer and there is no way to do so currently and this actively hurts the onedrive app as a document storage application.