OneDrive cant transfer files right now

So this issue has recently appeared on one of my Macs which is doing a large download of around 1TB of sync Data. In short its being download and the whole site is being moved to Dropbox, Sorry Microsoft but Sharepoint is not what it’s cracked up to be, in my humble opinion. If you have encounter a similar issue we go through the causes and some options which might fix the issue.

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Hard Drive Storage for all your External 2.5″ Drives

A question that has always been asked how do you store your external hard drives in such a way they are mobile but also protected from the elements and accidental drops etc.

You can go down the route of buying some protect caddy drive cases, which I have used to great effect in the past however I found walking around with several bootable macOS external drives in caddy cases a bit taxing. In short we need a better method to carry them and keep them in a collective for easy access and to help prevent the mislaying of devices.

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Unlinking Sharepoint from a Mac

So you have a large amount of sharepoint data which is synced to your machine however it’s eating up the space on the Mac what do you do?

You have tried making it online by right clicking the folder and mark free up space however this has not worked (it sometimes just hangs or gives the Error 14 code) and the drive is nearly full. What are the options ?

You have a large amount of SharePoint data synced to your Mac, but it’s consuming almost all your disk space.

You’ve already tried making the folders “online-only” by right-clicking and selecting Free up space, but this either hangs or fails with Error 14. Meanwhile, your drive is running out of storage.

What options do you have to resolve this issue?

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HP Easy Start Unable to download from HP Site

HP Easy Start is a guided installation tool designed to simplify setting up HP printers on macOS. It automatically detects the printer and fetches the necessary drivers and software for your device. However when you go to the HP site to find the software (Drivers) you only get the option to download the Windows (see above). It does seem random I thought it was linked to certain networks however after further testing this issue I found it happens on several networks without any pattern of why the Mac version of the Software App is not available. There is a workaround that should help.

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