Is OneDrive available? And if so, does it even work?

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Recent convert here. Took a deep dive from Windows 10 to Zorin full time. Full migration and so far, loving it.
But I have hit a few snags, namely OneDrive.

In my searching I found different versions of it. OneDrive and then Onedriver etc.
I managed to get OneDriver to work, but I didn't like how it worked. I used another, and literally spent 24+ hours solid downloading all my files. Once that was done, it complained of a database error and access violation.

So I gave up. I get like this, is something as simple as this brings up errors and issues etc, I end up throwing in the towel and going back to Windows, which I don't want to do.

How can I get OneDrive to work? Or to be clear, access to my onedrive files in a syncing way. I could consider leaving them and using another service, but I've used it for years now so I'd rather not.

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Try with https://www.expandrive.com/onedrive-for-linux/ I have great success wit it in the past with different clouds solutions. It's not free, but there's a 30-days demo to try out.

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Thank you, but I'd rather avoid paying for an additional service, even if it is for a year at a time.

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Take a look here:

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That's another paid for application. :confused:

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OneDrive is proprietary Microsoft. Paywalls get harder to avoid.

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After experimenting with a few solutions including RClone, I settled on OneDriver. There are a few things that bug me about it (the file cache slowly gets bigger and bigger, and it's slower than OneDrive on Windows) but it serves my needs more-or-less adequately. What troubles were you having with it?

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It is probably me not know things well enough yet, but I didn't like the fact I didn't know what it was doing.
I'd add my account and it would show my files, but no status in what it has downloaded. I want it to download EVERYTHING to my machine and it may do, but I was trying to open documents and they wouldn't load because they were downloaded. Perhaps they get dynamically downloaded, but I wanted it all downloaded. Is that possible with OneDriver?

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Maybe you can use rclone. This utility can work with a lot of different cloud providers, including OneDrive.

You can mount OneDrive in Linux via rclone.

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Had the same problem, the easy way is to use the browser login page, then just grab the image you want, works for me good luck.

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I have Onedrive and not paying for anything extra. This is what I used to install, works just fine and syncs.

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I don't think so with OneDriver, that touts 'only download files as you use them' as one of its main features.

GitHub - abraunegg/onedrive: #1 Free OneDrive Client for Linux May be able to do it, though. It looks like you can get a GUI working for it as well.

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