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

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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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Anonymous

2018-01-08T13:31:33+00:00

Find Onedrive folder in C:\Users\owner

Right click and select properties.

Under the general tab uncheck the "Read only" box

This worked for me
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Anonymous

2018-01-04T09:39:19+00:00

I'm having exactly the same problem. Yet again this morning I open a word doc on my local copy of onedrive and when I come to save it Word refuses with a 'read only' error. I check the attributes and sure enough the read-only flag is set again. I unset it and save the file which then works.

i *keep* having to do this and it's driving me mad. Given that solutions such as google drive and dropbox can do this without issue or error, why is Microsoft's solution so flakey?
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Anonymous

2017-12-05T19:32:37+00:00

Thanks! I've done this but have to keep re-doing this from time to time.
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Anonymous

2017-12-05T17:26:56+00:00

like Becky below,

I selected the folder,

right clicked properties,

deselected read only,

hit save,

then told selected to have it apply setting to all items in folders and subfolders

worked after that
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Anonymous

2017-11-06T12:59:12+00:00

Have tried all this but not working . The properties on OneDrive still goes back o ReadOnly
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