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.
111 comments
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Anonymous
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Yes, please!
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Marcie Adoba
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This feature is very important to me and my Mac user friends, all of whom I am sending to this site today.
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Richard Brooks
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I think I speak for all of us when I say we would like a progress report on this feature. Just today a user lost everything on their desktop when their Mac died and their iCloud backup wasn't up to date. Getting Mac or PC users to save their stuff to anywhere other than the desktop is surprisingly difficult to do. We need a solution NOW.
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Bob
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This would be a great feature to have on the Mac client side and for E3 Office customers. Would go nicely with legal hold.
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Austin
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Looks like drobox has this functionality working now and google drive has an app that allows this.
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Richard Brooks
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Please, Microsoft - stop "thinking" about this, and give us a working product. Preferably this year.
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Bill Tomsha
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I hate that I have Macs in my network but it is a necessary evil. Most of my Mac users will not use the OneDrive I installed on their systems so if I could set it to sync the documents, desktop and downloads folders it would solve that issue. Tried symlinks and unless I move the above mentioned folders to the OneDrive Folder and then create symlinks for those back to their original place it does not work. This is messy and Macs don't really like it much.
Just adding the ability to use standard symlinks would be great! -
Ed
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This would be fantastic. Getting users to actually use OneDrive is difficult, this would help the issue enormously.
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Esteban Pereira
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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
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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
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Yes, we need this feature for macOS please. Thanks.
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Monica
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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
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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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Anonymous
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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?
