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
    2015-07-24T16:08:05+00:00

    I also had this problem after installing Office 365. To solve it for all documents:

    Open File Explorer

    Right click on the Documents folder

    Select Properties

    Click on the black box next to "Read Only" -- it should deselect it for you

    Click apply

    Confirm ok

    Hopefully you will have success with this!

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-07-25T02:53:55+00:00

    Unfortunately, after following that procedure, the folders revert back to read only immediately. 

    There re is something deeper at work here than a simple change in attributes. 

    But thank you for trying to help.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-07-27T01:11:55+00:00

    Hi - I'm having a similar problem: Office files opening as read-only (Word, Excel, even Access), and they won't let me do a "save as" with the same file name. I'm using Win 8.1; noticed a reply earlier in this thread that mentioned reinstalling Windows did the trick, so I'm wondering if the Windows 10 upgrade will accomplish the same thing.

    I've tried unchecking the Read-Only box at various file and folder levels multiple times, but it doesn't stick and doesn't fix the problem.

    Also - after setting up this Surface with my Microsoft account, I subsequently changed my primary account alias from a hotmail account to a gmail account. Is it possible that is causing this problem? I considered changing the account on the Surface to the new primary, but I'm afraid of locking myself out of the device altogether, which seems like a bad idea.

    All suggestions appreciated.

    [=sfc=]

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-07-27T12:35:17+00:00

    I have exactly the same problem. I save a file to my computer's hard drive and then try to save it to One drive but get the message cant save to onedrive because it's a read only document. I change the 'read only' property on onedrive but it doesn't actually change it because I still can't save the file. As said this is an important issue that Microsoft needs to resolve I think.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-07-27T13:20:07+00:00

    Did you by chance try these instructions I posted earlier in this thread? It worked for at least one other person.

    "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 can now say that 8 months later, I have not had this problem reoccur on the files that I've changed.

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