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
    2014-03-28T04:07:27+00:00

    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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-04-19T02:10:57+00:00

    I'm having this problem too. I'm opening the files from the onedrive section of file explorer. It stopped happening for awhile but now, since the 8.1 update its occurring again. It's very annoying because if forces me to save a new version of the file every time I work on the damn thing.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-04-21T18:56:40+00:00

    Whenever I open a file from OneDrive folder it opens as read-only. I have repeatedly tried to change the properties to OneDrive but it reverts all folders and files back to read-only. I can no longer save to the OneDrive folder. WTF?

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  4. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-04-22T01:38:36+00:00

    Download the file to the local drive and open it from there.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-04-22T01:47:00+00:00

    This is a workaround, not a solution. Why should this be happening in the first place? Why is it that changing the properties appears to have no effect?

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