OneDrive and M1 Macs

[roxygal9]

So I recently bought a 13 inch MBP to accompany my 16 Intel MBP so I had a computer with a little bit better battery life. As I was setting up my M1 I noticed a couple things about it that's giving me trouble. I have already installed Rosetta, as I was promoted to when using Office apps. First, I am having trouble adding an email account to Outlook. It searches for my gmail accounts to add, finds them, but then just gets stuck on allowing access part and it never goes through. Any tips are appreciated. I haven't been able to find anything useful after a google search that seems to fix it. I really hate Apple's mail app.

The second thing is One Drive - it does seem to work, okay, but maybe a little more glitchy and slower to synch on the M1s? Anyone else experience issues with these 2 programs? Curious to what others have experienced since M1 has been out over 6 months now. Unfortunately, I cant use iCloud, I have a windows machine I need to run and I have not had a lot of success running iCloud on windows machines.

Thanks for any tips!

 

[Ningj]

Try using a different browser other than Safari. I think I registered using firefox and it was fine (changed default browser). Outlook's new interface option doesn't support Gmail aliases and will always revert back to your actual gmail email <sigh>

Ive also recently reverted back to using OneDrive after initial memory issues with earlier releases. Its much better now but not perfect. I'm running the insider preview update ring and its working pretty well with a drive of approx 40k files. Memory sits around 220mb. Cant say if its slower/faster than my Intel MBP though.

 

[Aggedor]

OneDrive is a total pig on M1 Macs, but after the initial setup and sync, it will settle down and behave as it should. I share GBs of files between my M1 MBA and my Windows desktop - including live work files - and I've had no issue, other than the Mac OneDrive is sometimes a few seconds slower to synch than the Windows one.

So... stick with it, leave it alone and let it do its first big synch, and it should be fine.

All Office apps - except OneDrive - are Apple Silicon native, including Outlook. For Gmail, you will need to set up an app-specific password in your Google account, otherwise Outlook won't be able to connect.

 

[Kung gu]

OneDrive is adding support for Apple M1 Macs and new sync features (xda-developers.com)

its coming later this year

 

[doolar]

This was my biggest worry when I bought a M1 Air for work since I live in Onedrive basically. But fortunately I’ve not noticed anything really.

Granted I keep my Onedrive very organised and tidy all the time, and I don’t need everything synced locally either. YMMV of course, but I was expecting some trouble but experienced none so far.

 

[xraydoc]

OneDrive is adding support for Apple M1 Macs and new sync features (xda-developers.com)

its coming later this year

Awesome. Thanks for the link.

 

[polyphenol]

I do wish I knew how you get the Finder extensions working for OneDrive!

I have gone though the install/remove/re-install several times. It appears to install fine. It finds my OneDrive folder. That synchronised. But I cannot choose whether files/folders should be on-demand or always local.

 

[southerndoc]

OneDrive will eventually support AS, but the process is going to be slow. It works, but as someone else has mentioned, large file transfers and initial setup can be resource heavy initially.

 

[roxygal9]

Thanks everyone for the info on OneDrive. After a few hours, it seems to synch pretty well now.

However, I am still not able to add a gmail account to my outlook. I tried using Google Chrome instead of safari, and no dice. I didn't have any issues setting this same account up on my 16 MBP intel Mac a few months ago.

Anyone have any other tips to get this working?

 

[polyphenol]

Thanks everyone for the info on OneDrive. After a few hours, it seems to synch pretty well now.

However, I am still not able to add a gmail account to my outlook. I tried using Google Chrome instead of safari, and no dice. I didn't have any issues setting this same account up on my 16 MBP intel Mac a few months ago.

Anyone have any other tips to get this working?

Sorry - no tips. I simply installed and ran Outlook and entered required information - for two email accounts on gmail. It connected and synchronised and is being used.

The only issue is the usual one of the which account/password - not the one of your email but of your google account.

 

[MrGunny94]

Honestly for the time being I'm just using One Drive on the web and use office.com to search for the files (way too used to this due to using Linux on a daily basis)

 

[Silvestru Hosszu]

Thanks everyone for the info on OneDrive. After a few hours, it seems to synch pretty well now.

However, I am still not able to add a gmail account to my outlook. I tried using Google Chrome instead of safari, and no dice. I didn't have any issues setting this same account up on my 16 MBP intel Mac a few months ago.

Anyone have any other tips to get this working?

Had the same issue this week setting up an M1 Mac Mini.
I repeated the steps I think 2 dozen times, and at the end it worked.
So keep persevering!

 

[roxygal9]

Had the same issue this week setting up an M1 Mac Mini.
I repeated the steps I think 2 dozen times, and at the end it worked.
So keep persevering!

I have tried it about a dozen times myself on setting up outlook. still no dice. a little frustrating

 

[Kung gu]

I have tried it about a dozen times myself on setting up outlook. still no dice. a little frustrating

I would not use OneDrive until it becomes native on M1 Mac. Its coming later this year. For now just use the web OneDrive instead of the app.

 

[southerndoc]

I would not use OneDrive until it becomes native on M1 Mac. Its coming later this year. For now just use the web OneDrive instead of the app.

It works fine on my MBA M1 16GB and Mac mini M1 16GB. Not issues at all. So recommendation to not run at all might be a little extreme.

 

[Spindel]

OneDrive works exactly as bad on M1 as on Intel macs.

I while back I even made a thread:

OneDrive is a piece of **** software

And now again OneDrive has started giving me grief. No update nothing changed but OneDrive decided to start crapping out. FFS Microsoft get your **** togheter!

forums.macrumors.com

Lamenting how frustrated I am with that software. The first post is made from an Intel Mac.

To be fair to OneDrive it has gotten better the last couple of months but it still is a **** piece of software no matter what CPU architecture. Oh and it also is crap on Windows, even if it's not as bad as on MacOS.

 

[roxygal9]

OneDrive works fine for me on my 16MBP intel, but still having issues with OneDrive on the M1 MacBook I picked up. I can see files, but when I try to open them up I get an error message. Its frustrating. I also tried numerous things to get Outlook working on the M1, and have been unsuccessful. I switched to Spark and its been a great experience. I love the 16 for the screen real estate at home, and love the portability and astounding battery life of the 13 MBP (picked up the 512/8GB for 1150 in May). I use the 13 for word processing/emails, etc. I have thought about ditching the 16MBP, but there are still come apps (to include Parallels so I can run Windows 10), that I need to keep it around. I have a windows machine -Thinkpad X1Carbon, that runs great still even though from 2018, but love the Mac experience so much more.