Nonetheless you should be aware that this is a major inconvenience to many OneDrive users with Android devices. I appreciate that this is a question of the app needing to catch up with something you have changed. A key example is the widely used Android ES File Manager although a number of other apps have the same problem.Īs far as I am aware iOS apps are not affected and seem to still work.
Clearly something has changed recently at the OneDrive end since all these apps worked perfectly until recently. On the more positive side I’ve just sent the following to OneDrive support you aware that a wide range of 3rd party Android file management apks which include an interface facility to connect to OneDrive user accounts stopped working a week or so ago?Įssentially they all report that the specified user account cannot now be found. So let’s not turn a generic OneDrive issue into a beauty contest.
A wide range of other Android File managers including those listed by the afficianados above are also giving the same error messages. Check out this short roundup if you need some suggestions.It’s not just ES File Explorer that’s affected. But the landscape of the Play Store has changed quite a bit in the last few years, and users have no shortage of alternatives to choose from. In defense of EStrongs, both apps still function as advertised and will perform basic file manager duties, whatever detritus is added on top of them. This may be a case of a popular app being sold to a new company that immediately starts to make changes. Notably, the developer of ES File Explorer and all its associated apps changed its Play Store publisher name from ES APP Group to ES Global sometime between August and September.
Similar accusations were sent towards Pushbullet after the recent split into free and paid tiers. But this certainly appears to be a case of a developer making a popular free app worse in order to make the paid version more appealing. We're not opposed to paid apps, or even unconventional means of monetizing applications - far from it.
Tellingly, the Pro version starts off with a view of your phone's /sdcard partition, which is where most file managers (free and paid) begin the user interface. This $3 app essentially removes the more annoying elements (or at least some of them) from the recent versions of ES and adds in new customization options, including the ability to set your start page and default windows - something that was inexplicably removed from recent versions of the free app, replacing a simple directory with the "homepage" view. Now there's a new option from the developer: ES File Explorer Pro.
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