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Note that when you click on the Choose OneDrive for Business Folder Location button, you can pick any folder you want, but I chose the Documents folder. It’s a very straightforward process, at least at my organization.

#Automator sync folders install

Of course step 0 is to install the “OneDrive for Business Mac sync client Preview”.

#Automator sync folders for mac

Setup Installing OneDrive for Business for Mac This is just what happened to work for me. I have no idea whether any of this will work for you in your business’s network environment or with its particular Office 365 subscription.

#Automator sync folders how to

In this post, I’ll show how to create a few Automator workflows to allow you to: And hey, it’s just a “preview”, right?įortunately, OS X provides plenty of built-in tools to help Mac users fill in much of the missing functionality. It’s not exactly what I had hoped for, but it certainly beats the web app and failed IM file transfers. It just creates a directory on your disk, keeps it in sync with the files and folders in your OneDrive for Business account, puts a nice little cloud in your menu bar, and animates it when it’s syncing. Notice the words “sync client” - because that’s all the client does at this time: sync files. On January 28, 2015, Microsoft finally released what they call the “OneDrive for Business Mac sync client Preview”. Furthermore, Microsoft didn’t even make a OneDrive for Business client for the Mac. Because although Microsoft OneDrive has been in the Mac App Store for a while, it doesn’t work with business accounts. Until recently, the answer has been to email the images, attempt a futile file transfer via Adium or Microsoft Lync, schlep around in the OneDrive web application, or put them on a network share and try to communicate that path to someone else in a platform-agnostic way. And - here’s the kicker - what if you also dare to use a Mac in such an environment? It can be great for quickly & effortlessly sharing screenshots with others via IM, email, etc.īut what if you work for a Microsoft-centric, Office 365, SharePoint-y organization? They usually don’t take kindly to having proprietary screenshots stored on personal Dropbox or Google Drive accounts, possibly shareable with anyone in the world that you give the URL to - willingly or otherwise. Trying again with the command: “tccutil reset Contacts -Folders-Remote-Backups” also returns a failure: tccutil: Failed to reset Contacts approval status for -Folders-Remote-BackupsĪny ideas anyone? I know I can simply “uncheck” the box, but I’d really like to remove the entry.Sharing Screenshots on the Mac Using OneDrive for Businessįor quite a while Dropbox has had a great screenshot-sharing feature that will automatically move any screenshots you take using ⇧⌘3 and ⇧⌘4 into your Dropbox Screenshots folder and immediately copy its public URL to your clipboard.

When I tried to get the “id” of the entry using this command: osascript -e 'id of app "Sync Folders Remote Backups”’, Terminal returned: -Folders-Remote-Backups. When I tried to use the same command for Contacts, “tccutil reset Contacts” I get the following error: “tccutil: Failed to reset Contacts.” I was able to remove the entry from the Calendars and Reminders sections using the “tccutil reset Calendars” and “tccutil reset Reminders” command in Terminal.

#Automator sync folders code

As I was changing the data source for this particular backup I entered an extra “space” between two lines of the code and ended up with this “Sync Folders Remote Backups” entry in a number of “Security & Privacy” locations (Calendars, Reminders and Contacts).

As one of my backups I use rsync commands via Automator. I’m looking to remove the “Sync Folders Remote Backups” entry.

Is it possible to remove an entry in the “Security & Privacy” section of System Preferences? Specifically, Privacy/Contacts (see screenshot).