How to stop documents being transferred to new laptop

flossiea

I cant see one drive anywhere at all on my mac :wall: I've put office back on there as it made no difference, so frustrating :mad:

buglawton

Could it be that the Onedrive app icon is hidden?
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/OneDrive-for-Mac-FAQ-3fc4062c-8051-4392-bff1-551e32840cd0

flossiea

I'd seen that page before, I still cant find it anywhere on my mac, thanks for trying though

buglawton

If you change your Outlook password on the computer the docs are coming from on, I reckon new docs will no longer be added to history.

If it's asking for a password when you click on a document that implies the doc is not really on the Mac, there's just a placeholder there and the doc would be pulled down on demand. What happens if you right click on such a doc, doesn't a Move To Trash option appear?

Finally, there should be a way of clearing down old history.

Mr_Toad

Open Spotlight and type onedrive. You can use the cmd key along with the spacebar to open spotlight.

If the Onedrive app is on the Mac it will show it, if not it will show it as available in the App Store for download.

Onedrive itself isn't on the Mac, it's cloud storage and you are probably linked to it via Office 365 or Gmail, or both.

When you signed it to Office 365 and/or Gmail on the Mac it automatically gave you access to your cloud documents.

flossiea

buglawton wrote: »

If you change your Outlook password on the computer the docs are coming from on, I reckon new docs will no longer be added to history.

If it's asking for a password when you click on a document that implies the doc is not really on the Mac, there's just a placeholder there and the doc would be pulled down on demand. What happens if you right click on such a doc, doesn't a Move To Trash option appear?

Finally, there should be a way of clearing down old history.

I didnt use outlook on my old laptop I had disabled it right from the start, its on the mac as part of office 365 but has no docs in it at all, right clicking the doc either takes me to the ms sign in page again or some docs that have come to me through gmail are opening as normal, I wish I could work out how to clear all docs or docs history, I can only seem to delete web or browsing history, thanks for the help

eta - although outlook is on the mac no account has been set up.

flossiea

Mr_Toad wrote: »

Open Spotlight and type onedrive. You can use the cmd key along with the spacebar to open spotlight.

If the Onedrive app is on the Mac it will show it, if not it will show it as available in the App Store for download.

Onedrive itself isn't on the Mac, it's cloud storage and you are probably linked to it via Office 365 or Gmail, or both.

When you signed it to Office 365 and/or Gmail on the Mac it automatically gave you access to your cloud documents.

Its taking me to the app store, so its not on my mac?

Mr_Toad

flossiea wrote: »

Its taking me to the app store, so its not on my mac?

That's right, it's not on your Mac but is available in the App Store if you want it.