KFM Known Folder Move for MAC
Why not KFM Known Folder Move for MAC?
Vincenzo
shared this idea
We are investigating how to bring this functionality to macOS.
103 comments
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Esteban Pereira
commented
When I was using dropbox, i was able to achieve this by creating symlinks inside the dropbox folder and it synced the files; unfortunately, symlinks are not supported in OneDrive. It shouldn't be that hard.
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Richard Brooks
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How may I find out if this moves out of the "Thinking About It" stage to "Working On It"? This is a long, long requested feature. Really important because we protect our users data by policy - but if it's not in OneDrive, I can't protect it. Then I get users backing up their desktop and documents to iCloud because OneDrive can't do this. They're bumping up against iCloud's meagre 5gb limit, and keeping me awake at night because data leaves our organization this way. I even tried using symlinks to do this, but it appears Microsoft turned off even this capability. Please help us.
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Brad Pinkston
commented
Google Drive is now capable of doing this and so is iCloud Drive. Should be possible with OneDrive also.
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Joseph Kwok
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if the feature is developed for the windows version it should be developed for the mac version
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Shaun Kilmartin
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This would be a game changer for deploying Macs in our org. I've tried with symlinks before and it was A MESS.
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Matt King commented
So, so disappointed when I discovered simlinks didn't work. They would be such a great way to accomplish this. This is such a basic feature. For me, there's no value in OneDrive without it. Looking for another product now.
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Richard Brooks
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We're' shopping for an alternative OneDrive client for MacOS. Lots of options out there (MountainDuck, ExpanDrive, GoodSync) but none provide a way of backing up Mac Documents and Desktop. I had one promising suggestion from M6iT Consulting that involved putting a Symbolic Link for the Desktop and Document folders into a subfolder inside OneDrive. However, it appears OneDrive ignores Symbolic Links altogether. Can you help?
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Don
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You may want to merge this one (https://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/913525-onedrive-on-mac/suggestions/36026212-known-folder-sync-feature-request) into here. Not an easy ask we know but this feature has been fantastic and would love for our Mac users to get something similar.
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MR
commented
Yes, we need this feature for macOS please. Thanks.
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Monica
commented
Dear,
I see not I am the only one interested in syncing MAC Desktop to OneDrive. I tried a backdoor solution saying create a link in the OneDrive folder pointing to the Desktop hoping OneDrive will look in it and sync it. BUT unfortunately this is not working either as, for some reason, OneDrive did not recognise links. I know that because not even the link itself is synced, proved by taking a look on synced files online.
Please provide us a solution! Any kind of solution. Thanks! -
Richard Brooks
commented
How may I find out if this moves out of the "Thinking About It" stage to "Working On It"? This is a long, long requested feature. Really important because we protect our users data by policy - but if it's not in OneDrive, I can't protect it. Then I get users backing up their desktop and documents to iCloud because OneDrive can't do this. They're bumping up against iCloud's meagre 5gb limit, and keeping me awake at night because data leaves our organization this way. I even tried using symlinks to do this, but it appears Microsoft turned off even this capability. Please help us.
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Anonymous
commented
Would be nice if OneDrive automatically backed up my files on my Mac, especially since it is being used by one of the largest school systems in the United States. This should be available on ALL systems.
Any chance this will be done in the near future? -
Carol
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Thought I could use One drive as a backup of files created on my MAC but apparently not. After a month of back & forth correspondence with ONedrive support (case # 2026945)I'm finally told what I want to do isn't possible. I made it clear in beginning I wanted folder on mac to automatically sync to onedrive. Please update your staff as well as program as this was a big waste of time.
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Steve
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Having this feature officially supported would amazing...Microsoft, please!
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Aaron
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I'm paying for a different sync solution because OneDrive for Mac doesn't let me sync my desktop :(
I don't know how I'll even learn that this is implemented (if ever) because I'm not running OneDrive on the Mac anymore :(
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andy
commented
seriously, this is the one feature that is actually needed (not mentioning the fact that the app on ios shows all pictures not just the ones from the pctures folder!)
but this is stopping so many of my clients going with onedrive when i explain i cant set it up like their desktop -
Anonymous
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our organization is trying to move everything to onedrive and sharepoint. not having a supported method for syncing home folders is preventing the macs in our environment from taking advantage of these features and selling the microsoft experience on mac.
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GDrive User
commented
Any updates on this 2 years old issue? How much longer would it take to implement
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Glenn
commented
Any news from the Product Team?
This is hindering our organisations Microsoft experience on macOS -
Amanda
commented
It's been 2 years since this idea was created, why hasn't Microsoft done something?? I would like for the syncing to be just as it is on Windows. I have a personal MacBook and a work Windows desktop and this would make my life easier! Especially all this work from home business with COVID19.
