Afterwards, all the screenshots you take should be written straight into the Screenshots folder you created in OneDrive and synced to the cloud. Next you’ll either need to log out and back into your OS X account or run the scary killall SystemUIServer terminal command to make the new screenshot location take effect. defaults write location -string "/Users/pjfry/Documents/OneDriveBusiness/Shared with Everyone/Screenshots" In this case, run the following, changing the path to match the path to your Screenshots directory. Fortunately, as is often the case, even the most annoying of OS X’s defaults can be changed from the terminal with the defaults write command. However it always saves to the Desktop, and there’s no visible UI for changing this. The built-in OS X keyboard shortcuts work fine for me. I don’t currently use any fancy 3rd-party software for taking screenshots. Create a subfolder inside it named Screenshots. Any files I place in this aptly-named folder can be viewed by any authenticated user in my organization, which is fine by me. Creating The Screenshots Folderīy default, my OneDrive contained a Shared with Everyone folder. All the following instructions will assume the OneDriveBusiness folder is located at ~/Documents/OneDriveBusiness. Note that when you click on the Choose OneDrive for Business Folder Location button, you can pick any folder you want, but I chose the Documents folder. It’s a very straightforward process, at least at my organization. Of course step 0 is to install the “OneDrive for Business Mac sync client Preview”. Setup Installing OneDrive for Business for Mac This is just what happened to work for me. I have no idea whether any of this will work for you in your business’s network environment or with its particular Office 365 subscription. copy the sharable URL of any file in your OneDrive folder in Finder.Ī word of warning: I’m not an MCSE.take a screenshot and have its sharable OneDrive URL automatically copied to your clipboard.In this post, I’ll show how to create a few Automator workflows to allow you to: And hey, it’s just a “preview”, right?įortunately, OS X provides plenty of built-in tools to help Mac users fill in much of the missing functionality. It’s not exactly what I had hoped for, but it certainly beats the web app and failed IM file transfers. It just creates a directory on your disk, keeps it in sync with the files and folders in your OneDrive for Business account, puts a nice little cloud in your menu bar, and animates it when it’s syncing. Notice the words “sync client” - because that’s all the client does at this time: sync files. On January 28, 2015, Microsoft finally released what they call the “OneDrive for Business Mac sync client Preview”. Furthermore, Microsoft didn’t even make a OneDrive for Business client for the Mac. Because although Microsoft OneDrive has been in the Mac App Store for a while, it doesn’t work with business accounts. Until recently, the answer has been to email the images, attempt a futile file transfer via Adium or Microsoft Lync, schlep around in the OneDrive web application, or put them on a network share and try to communicate that path to someone else in a platform-agnostic way. And - here’s the kicker - what if you also dare to use a Mac in such an environment? It can be great for quickly & effortlessly sharing screenshots with others via IM, email, etc.īut what if you work for a Microsoft-centric, Office 365, SharePoint-y organization? They usually don’t take kindly to having proprietary screenshots stored on personal Dropbox or Google Drive accounts, possibly shareable with anyone in the world that you give the URL to - willingly or otherwise. Sharing Screenshots on the Mac Using OneDrive for Businessįor quite a while Dropbox has had a great screenshot-sharing feature that will automatically move any screenshots you take using ⇧⌘3 and ⇧⌘4 into your Dropbox Screenshots folder and immediately copy its public URL to your clipboard.
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