OneDrive for Mac on external HDD

So my bad! I bought a mac mini with a small 256gb ssd (no way to upgrade). I have 300gb of one drive data. When I set up the mac mini from a clean install, Onedrive setup allowed me to site my onedrive folder on the external drive. All good for now!

Time goes by, I have to move my hardware. I plug everything back in. onedrive asks me to re sign in (dunno why, but it did). Now when I try to choose the onedrive folder on the external hdd. I get a message saying I can't use this folder.

I've read the article about making the external hdd non ejectable. It could have been written in Swahili for all the good it was.

Help please?

Mac mini, macOS 14.2

Posted on Dec 14, 2023 6:28 PM

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FoxFifth

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Dec 14, 2023 6:36 PM in response to kensden

You may want to also post to or check the Microsoft OneDrive for Mac forum to see if someone there can help: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_drive-msoffice_OfH-mso_OPMac?sort=LastReplyDate&dir=Desc&tab=All&status=all&mod=&modAge=&advFil=&postedAfter=&postedBefore=&threadType=all&isFilterExpanded=true&page=1

kensden Author

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Dec 14, 2023 6:39 PM in response to FoxFifth

Lol, they sent me here. Said it was a macos problem!

FoxFifth

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Dec 14, 2023 6:49 PM in response to kensden

Even it it is a macOS problem, Mac users on that forum frequently have ideas and typically know more about Microsoft software on Macs than most users here, but it's a good idea to check both places.

kensden Author

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Dec 14, 2023 6:51 PM in response to FoxFifth

As I said I was there. They had nothing to offer. They sent me here. :-)

yamikumo

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Jan 8, 2024 7:45 PM in response to kensden

I had same problem and ended up to use rclone caching in an external drive.

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