OneDrive for Business Issue with MAC - Case sensitive 03 January 2017 by I have had my Macbook pro for several months now, however I never was able to sync my files with the one drive client, a few months ago we created a ticket with Microsoft, and they said it was not possible because it was not compatible with MacOS Sierra. The error was that when selecting a folder to sync the files, it said the drive was external or case sensitive format. 2 weeks ago I created the ticket again, because I started to use one drive for business on my windows pc quite a lot, and I needed those files on my mac book pro as well.

2 weeks later Microsoft had to escalate the ticket to an escalation engineer, he had no idea either. After 15 minutes googling it, I didnt find an exact solution, but a post from someone lead me to the right direction. Go to Disk Utilies, create a partion (non case sensitive), and use that partition as your One drive location, and voila! Thank you Microsoft for making me solve my own ticket! Read by this author. Templates for word on a mac.

I'm trying to setup OneDrive for Business on my MacBook Pro and it appears that that is impossible. Am I just doing it wrong or is there no way for Mac OneDrive for Business users to get a desktop sync going with it?

I was recently involved in a discussion about the capabilities of OneDrive for Business for Mac, with my co-worker, Michael Toole. One of his customers was in the process of migrating network shares over to SharePoint. Majority of their user base was on Mac, and had very little experience with the web UI’s, so OneDrive sounded like a default choice for syncing their files to local machine.

In this post, I share our experience and findings for a quick and easy way to address the sync problems on Mac (I’ll share the credit for this post with Michael). Currently OneDrive for Business does not have a sync client for Mac. It’s on the roadmap for later this year or early 2015 although expect it to be released with limited functionality such as only personal site sync (no team site). In the meantime there are few third party apps which does the same. There is an app currently available in the iTunes app store but only works if you have a SharePoint Online or qualifying Office 365 business subscription.

Else, look at using Microsoft Document Connection for Mac. This allows you to connect the libraries to your Mac in a very similar way as the windows explorer view on Windows. Although document connection does not support offline access. To get around that limitation, download files to the local device. When the Mac OS is offline, you’ll be able to make any changes using the local Office applications.

Lutron app for mac. Once the Mac has a network connection, saving the updated documents to the Document Connection is available. It’ll also respect your check in and check out (read as exclusive check out). So, check out your document while you are online.