OneDrive for Mac tutorials and tips

Posted by Elvin Troglin on August 23rd, 2019

Microsoft OneDrive has almost everything that its competitors have in its arsenal (5 GB of free space in the file storage and up to twenty-five GB to those who have access to free updates, the ability to view the history of each object change, the shopping cart, desktop program and much more). Also, in addition, OneDrive (or as we also know SkyDrive) has its own advantages, for example, such as working with office documents right in the interface of file hosting, and we are not talking just about viewing option but also OneDrive offers editing option. For your convenience, we have prepared a brief tutorial about using OneDrive for Mac.

OneDrive Mac tips that you should know about

Of course, the first thing that every user should do is to setup OneDrive. Below you will get the step-by-step guide in order how to do it.

1. Before starting using OneDrive you need to obtain Microsoft Live ID. You can do it by following this link: https://signup.live.com;

1. After that follow this link: https://onedrive.live.com. Log in with just created credentials (login and password);

1. Now, you are needed to download OneDrive app for Mac;

1. Install OneDrive desktop app on your computer;

1. The last step is to create OneDrive folder on your hard drive upon a request.

Thought it would be rather difficult? Well, as you can see, it is not. The whole process is rather simple and straightforward that wouldn’t take you a lot of time.

The interface of the web version has a very simple structure as well. In the left part there are links to the main folders – "Files", "Recent", "Photos", "Shared" and “Recycle Bin”. More about each folder:

• OneDrive Storage "Files" is a basic opportunity to work with folders and files on the cloud. You can create a new file or folder, download them from the hard disk and sort them.

• "Recent" folder stores the history of using the service, both downloads, and editing in online versions of programs.

• "Photos" folder automatically detects all photos on the disc, supplies them with tags and sorts them according to the date of the shooting.

• "Shared" folder contains all files for which access was granted. Users who have received a link to them can get a view only access to the files. The rights to remove or change the data are not provided.

• The “Recycle Bin” is not of much interest. Its tasks are similar to the OneDrive desktop app version. The only difference is that by default the time it takes to store the files that you want to be deleted is only one month.