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
    2018-04-23T20:17:25+00:00

    you wrote:

    "Right mouse click on One Drive"

    *Where* on One Drive do you do this right mouse click?

    I tried a few places where I saw the text : "One Drive" and get no option "Sync" to select.

    Thanks

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-04-23T20:18:59+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.

    "Right mouse click on One Drive and click on sync."

    Where do you right click to get the "sync" option?

    Thanks

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  4. Stefan Blom 352K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-04-24T08:04:33+00:00

    In File Explorer, locate the OneDrive folder and right-click its icon.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-04-24T09:15:48+00:00

    My right-click menu includes only "Choose OneDrive Folders to Sync".

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