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

Anonymous
2014-03-26T17:51:19+00:00

I'm opening a word document from my Onedrive folder on my local machine and it's opening in Word 365 in read-only mode. Why is this  and why can't I open the document in Word 2010?

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-04-18T18:29:14+00:00

    Hi,

    I was experiencing the same issue, and just figured it out.

    The solution for me was to right click on the folder containing your documents, go to properties and untick the Read-only attribute. You can do this for one specific file as well or a folder containing other folders. Hope It helps.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-02-06T15:52:19+00:00

    Adding OneDrive as trusted location makes no  difference.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-10-04T12:54:32+00:00

    I went in and accessed the One Drive folder from c: users/owner/one drive  

    Right Clicked on the folder and added to my library.

    So far, after doing this my Word Documents started opening correctly again... I hope the fix sticks!

    knock on wood.

    I think I found the problem. So far it is working!!!!

    Right mouse click on One Drive and click on sync.

    All docs are now opening and saving fine and no sign of read only.

    One drive should sync automatically.... but for now until they come up with a fix, we probably will have to do it manually.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-07-06T15:07:48+00:00

    PERFECT!  Microsoft needs to put this at the TOP of the answers so that this is not such an act of Congress to read our files!  This worked immediately.  Thank you, LNCinc.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-05-21T13:41:18+00:00

    Hello Pastor,

    What happens if you save and Excel or PowerPoint file?

    Do you face the same issue if you save other Office application and edit using One Drive?

    Are you able to edit and save the file if you save the file locally on the computer and then upload to One Drive?

    Provide us more information to check and help you better.

    Thank you.

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