Why are my onedrive documents opening in read-only mode after installing office 365 home edition?

None of these fixes have helped me unfortunately.  It is literally driving me insane!  Has been four weeks so far!

If I right click on the Onedrive folder and go to Properties, "read only" is always checked.  I uncheck the "read only".  Also then do the same for the folders that I want to open within my Onedrive i.e. uncheck the read only.... and my documents are opening as read only!!  Then if I go back to see if the Onedrive folder has reset itself to read only.... yes it has.

I have uninstalled Onedrive several times now trying to fix this issue but no joy

When I am within Word on my desktop and open a file within my Onedrive folder, shouldn't that file open from my computer memory instead of "downloading from onedrive"???

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I found that I was having this read-only problem with only one file recently and came across this thread in my search. The things suggested here didn't appear to be the answer but it gave me the idea to compare the properties to other files that were working. This one file did not give any permissions to my OneDrive (Microsoft account) user.

From File Explorer:

Right click the file

Select Properties

Go to the Security Tab

Click Edit...

Click Add...

Type in your Microsoft account login ID

Click OK (on all 3 windows)

I've checked out nearly every other file in that folder and the one file I had issues with was the only one missing the Microsoft account.

I only did this just now, so I'm not sure if this is a long-term fix but I've since updated the file, saved it, closed it and re-opened it and it came up with full permissions.

I'm definitely interested to know if this helps solve the problem for anyone else.

Hello,

Do you find the issue with a specific Word document or with all Word documents?

How are you accessing these files, is it from within the Office applications or directly from One-Drive?

If you are syncing files from within Office 2013 applications, then you may remove and re-add the One-Drive account and then verify the results.

If issue still persists, you may provide us a screenshot of the issue and help you better.

I hope the above information helps. Let us know if you need further help.

Thank you.

None of these fixes have helped me unfortunately.  It is literally driving me insane!  Has been four weeks so far!

If I right click on the Onedrive folder and go to Properties, "read only" is always checked.  I uncheck the "read only".  Also then do the same for the folders that I want to open within my Onedrive i.e. uncheck the read only.... and my documents are opening as read only!!  Then if I go back to see if the Onedrive folder has reset itself to read only.... yes it has.

I have uninstalled Onedrive several times now trying to fix this issue but no joy

When I am within Word on my desktop and open a file within my Onedrive folder, shouldn't that file open from my computer memory instead of "downloading from onedrive"???

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

For those still having this issue, it seems like Office is trying to take over the syncing in order to make the fikes available online for usage with, and only with, Office online.

Right-click on OneDrive in the Notification Area (right side of the taskbar) and go to Settings. 

Go to the "Office” tab and Uncheck "Use office 2016 to sync office files that I open."

It fixed it on my wife's computer. I hate Office with a passion so I've never had that issue. 

#LibreOfficeMasterRace

All my Word and Excel files are opening in read-only too. It didn't use to be like this except for the past week it seems. I have to open and then Save As in another folder. When I copy the files back to OneDrive I need to have Administrator authorization. Something happened. I've been "Googling" (yeah, not "Binging") for the past week looking for an answer. Microsoft, this must be a big issue, can we please get a solution?