Onedrive For Business Problems Mac Sometimes You

Have issues with Microsoft OneDrive for Mac Sometimes you need to reset OneDrive to fix it.

Long story short, I had to reset my Keychain and that seems to have caused some unintentional issues for various things including OneDrive.

Side note: I had to reset my Keychain because of Office365 and enterprise single-sign-on issues I believe this may be related to my OneDrive issues as well but that is unconfirmed).

Anywayduring these few weeks, I had issues not only syncing my corporate and personal OneDrive accounts yes, you can have two running at once but sometimes OneDrive would just hang with an error message or two that I couldnt seem to get rid up.

But I found, after lots of trial and error on my end, a way that I believe is the easiest to reset OneDrive back to default so that you can get up and running again.

The most popular competitors are Dropbox, Google Drive, and Box.

Onedrive For Business Problems How To Reset OneDrive

Its about how to reset OneDrive to a clean state so that you can re-syncronize it again.

I wanted to offer these as possibilities to try before doing the really easy way to reset OneDrive that I discovered on my own.

For me, because I have a feeling it was a bit more deep-rooted than just a corrupt app, I did many of these fixes together.

Just launching Activity Monitor and killing OneDrive and OneDrive Finder Integration process can help, but not always.

I am happy to say, however (and knock on wood here) that both my OneDrive Personal and OneDrive for Business have been working just fine after trying this fix below.

Anyway, here are the high-level steps on how to reset OneDrive and then I will go into a bit more details.

So go into your Utilities folder and launch Activity Monitor.

There are usually two distinct OneDrive items you should quit: OneDrive and OneDrive Finder Integration.

Just highlight by clicking on each one and click on the X icon at the top.

In order to do this, you will need to go into the Keychain Access utility.

It stores a lot of encrypted items like passwords, certificates, and information.

The search results could be a variety of items.

Just make sure they are related to OneDrive.

So I started thinkingI wonder if the OneDrive developers put a reset script or application hidden within the OneDrive application itself.

And I used it. And it magically reset OneDrive so that I could start over from the beginning with the entering of my credentials.

You will then see a list of folders and files within the OneDrive application.

Note: dont mess with things in here as it could break your application.

Note, when you run it, you may need to authenticate as an administrator.

It should launch Terminal and run through a variety of options.

Mac Onedrive For Business Problems