Is there a way to Disable automatic updates for OneDrive Application v21.030... on MacOS?

Hi Joshua,

check out this post that helped me solve the problem:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/my-fix-for-onedrive-on-macos-catalina-1015x/de6ab37d-fa23-42b5-b5df-fbf05e09887b

shortly,

1. you have to download OneDrive version 23.054.0313 from https://hansbrender.com/all-onedrive-versions/#tabmac
2. delete your current OneDrive app (not the mounted folder) from "Applications" folder in Finder
3. then either go to "Activity Monitor" and be fast with stoping all different versions of OneDrive updater, including: StandaloneUpdater, StandaloneUpdaterDaemon, OneDrive Updater, and OneDriveUpdaterDaemon

or you can alternatively disconnect your device from the internet so that the updaters wouldn't be able to work!

4. install the correct version of OneDrive
5. run the lines suggested above in the terminal $ launchctl remove com.microsoft.OneDriveStandaloneUpdater $ sudo launchctl remove com.microsoft.OneDriveStandaloneUpdaterDaemon $ sudo launchctl remove com.microsoft.OneDriveUpdaterDaemon $ sudo rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.microsoft.OneDriveStandaloneUpdater.plist $ sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.OneDriveStandaloneUpdaterDaemon.plist $ sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.OneDriveUpdaterDaemon.plist

hope it helps!

This did it for me! You do have to be real quick killing the process the first time you run Onedrive, otherwise you have to start over again.

1. Uninstall/delete all Onedrive files, plists, cache, etc. as referenced in other articles
2. Download an older version of Onedrive
3. Open up Activity Monitor and search for Onedrive
4. Install Onedrive while keeping your eye on the Activity Monitor
5. Once install is complete, run Onedrive
6. As soon as you see the onedrive autoupdater start in Activity Monitor, kill the process, and keep killing it and any Onedrive updaters that spawn until they spawn no more.
7. At this point, Onedrive will go through it's "Welcome to Onedrive" script and configuration for your account and OneDrivre folder.
8. Once that's complete, do the steps in the above article, removing plists.

That's what did it for me!

Thanks everyone for the invaluable guidance. I'm on day 2 of Onedrive working and not updating.

Too bad Microsoft couldn't figure this out on their own, and ever more too bad they don't have an option for disabling auto updates with Onedrive.

Hi MM_887

This worked! Thank you so much for sharing. I doubt MS will update OneDrive for an old macos like Catalina, which I still run cause I have an old second hand Macbook.

Things like scripts and Terminal are a bit beyobd me but adjusting a plist with Xfile was fine.

Have a fine day, Good Sir.

Thanks so much. What version of One Drive will work with Mojave 10.14.6 ? And are the commands the same? OneDrive working on Mojave until May 28th and suddenly stopped.

Hi, have you just tried to delete the actual version and install the newest version? On Catalina it's now working again with the newest OneDrive Version. It worked without deleting the files, typing the commands and so on.