How to disable automatic updates for OneDrive on Mac?

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How to disable automatic updates for OneDrive on Mac?

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Hi Pyke, I seem to be back to square one. On logging on this morning I find that Onedrive can no longer open. When I click on the app it says I require OS 13 or later and has a last modified time of yesterday. Therefore it seems it has somehow updated again. I hadn't yet run the Terminal steps you mentioned above but had deleted the Autoupdater. Should I just run through the whole process of deleting Onedrive and installing again? And how do I prevent this from recurring?

Thanks.

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Dear Nikhil,

I'm splitting this question from your old previous thread because it's a brand new question and doing so helps attract people who know the correct answer to answer it.

There are two options that I know of at this time for this question. You can try them and see if one of them helps you solve it, with the caveat that you may need to perform the previous steps to reinstall an older version of OneDrive.

The first one:

Do not run OneDrive after installation.
Launch the Terminal app.
Open a terminal: Click the Launchpad icon in the Dock, type "terminal" in the search field, and then click Terminal.

Enter the following command to end the update process:

 launchctl remove com.microsoft.OneDriveStandaloneUpdater
 sudo launchctl remove com.microsoft.OneDriveStandaloneUpdaterDaemon
 sudo launchctl remove com.microsoft.OneDriveUpdaterDaemon

Enter the following command to delete the configuration file:

 sudo rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.microsoft.OneDriveStandaloneUpdater.plist
 sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.OneDriveStandaloneUpdaterDaemon.plist
 sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.OneDriveUpdaterDaemon.plist

Second type:

Open "Terminal", paste each line of command below into the terminal and press Enter to execute.

Its function is to remove the execution permission of the automatically updated program, and the update program cannot be executed.

chmod -x '/Applications/OneDrive.app/Contents/OneDrive Updater.app/Contents/MacOS/OneDriveUpdater'

chmod -x /Applications/OneDrive.app/Contents/StandaloneUpdater.app/Contents/MacOS/OneDriveStandaloneUpdater

I hope the above information is helpful to you. If you make any progress, please let me know.

Best Wishes

Pyke.D | Microsoft Community Support Specialist