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OneDrive for Business on El Capitan

I have been using One Drive for Business, on my MAC, for a while now but the upgrade to El Capitan has caused One Drive for Business to stop working again.

After a lot of searching I have found the fix to get it working again

NOTE: The OneDrive for Business Next Generation Sync Client is supported on OS X version 10.9 and above. The new OneDrive for Business sync client doesn't yet support syncing site libraries or on-premises instances of OneDrive for Business (when your organization doesn't subscribe to Office 365).

If you do not have OneDrive installed for personal use, now is the time to get it from the App Store

If you do not have a personal OneDrive account and want to make your business account your default account then open a terminal window and issue the following command, otherwise you can skip to the next steps

defaults write com.microsoft.OneDrive-mac DefaultToBusinessFRE -bool True
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Steps to Convert OneDrive for Business Use

  1. If you already have OneDrive running on your computer, then click on the cloud icon and select Quit OneDrive
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  2. Next open a Terminal Window and modify OneDrive to support multiple accounts by issuing the following command
    3. defaults write com.microsoft.OneDrive-mac EnableAddAccounts -bool True
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  3. Next Re-Start OneDrive from the Applications Folder; Note that I still have OneDrive for Business installed, we will deal with that later

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  4. Then Click on the OneDrive cloud icon, in the Menu bar, and select Preferences
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  5. Select the Account tab, in the new Add Account section, and select Add a Business Account
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  6. Sign into Office 365 with your work or school account
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  7. Which should redirect you to your Company’s or School’s logon page
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  8. Now you can choose which directory you want to sync with OneDrive for your Business files.
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  9. Then choose whether to sync some of your files or all of them, personally I always choose to synchronise my entire directory
  10. Next you are given the option to allow OneDrive to Open at login to sync the files automatically, I recommend that you check this box to enable this feature
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  11. You should now see either two OneDrive Cloud icons on your menu bar if you also have a personal OneDrice account, or just the one for you work or school account.

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  12. The last step is to ensure that OneDrive starts automatically at login, to do that click on the cloud icon in the menu bar and select preferences
  13. This time select the General tab and ensure that the Open at login check box is ticked
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