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

I've never had that check box ticked, and have often had the problem of files "read only". I think the issue lies elsewhere, something related to where the file originated, perhaps. I find the issue occurs too irregularly for me to work out what might be causing it.

On another point, Microsoft have obviously been doing a great deal of work with OneDrive of late, speeding up the process of uploading and downloading from their servers. I am now allowing my PC to save to OneDrive rather than to my PC, and the delay in opening and saving a document has at last become quite acceptable.

Very interesting, thanks.

It makes sense, an out of control process locking the files, blocking access to them.

I think Steve C might have hit the nail on the head.

I’ve found no solution. Changing the properties of all documents achieves nothing except maybe temporarily. My son has the same issue. It’s a quirk of OneDrive and MS Word, I suspect, and one that Microsoft aren’t bothered about.

I am searching for an answer to the same issue and coming across this forum i see that you say they were looking for a fix for it? but this was in 2015 and it is now 2018.... so im guessing theres no way to fix it??