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

Urgh, this issue is ridiculous as it's a simple permission issue that just wouldn't arise in Linux (or at least would be easily rectified).

All my documents within one directory magically became read-only. Nothing I tried from the above suggestions seemed to work.

I'm using OneDrive for business with Win10 (latest versions of everything).

I had the idea of creating a new directory, cut and paste the documents into that and hey presto they worked again.

So I deleted the old (now empty) directory, renamed the new one to the name of the one just deleted... guess what, all the documents were read-only again.

So as a 'workaround' I have to add a suffix to the directory name (e.g. DNAME_) just to keep write access. The old DNAME seems to associate itself with being read only (although I can still write if I use O365 online via a browser, so it's a Win specific issue).

Sort this mess out!

My issue was I had excel (or word) in my taskbar on Win 10, and when you right click on that icon, it offers you a list of files previously opened that you can re-open.  These files "reside" on OneDrive. (this is a corporate, not private, onedrive). When I would open the file using this method, then update the file and attempt to save it, I would get a popup that said I can't save it because it's already open in onedrive.

An IT person at my company showed me that if I browse to the file in onedrive, right click, select Open, then select the app (not the browser version) then click edit workbook when it opens, I can get it to behave as I want, which means I can update and save it.

However, this basically means that the "convenient" method I would rather use of opening the file from the task bar will not work, and I consider this a problem.

It may be that if I would wait long enough it would eventually sync and work that way, but I don't believe that is the case.

Thanks so much for your hard work on tbis.my issue was four tears ago. ,and I'm not sure how it was resolved, but it was. I' sure your attention to this will help a lot of people though. Many thanks.

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