How do I turn off READ ONLY permanently???

Anonymous
2016-10-02T07:44:44+00:00

I'm sick of office locking my files to Read Only.

I have files I use all the time in my one drive folder, I'll open one and word decides it is Read Only and to make a change I need to save it as a new name.

I email a file to my wife to read, she makes changes and emails it back...now its Read Only.

How do disable this frustrating crap interfering with my workflow?  It's making me crazy!!!

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-10-14T06:31:50+00:00

    Hi Stefan,

    Yes I can use a browser to download from Onedrive on the net.

    And when I close a file I can see word and excel uploading to One drive.

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  2. Stefan Blom 353K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-10-17T00:00:20+00:00

    That tells us that the problem is definitely with the synchronizing. For general troubleshooting, see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Fix-OneDrive-sync-problems-83ab0d8a-8400-45b0-8dcf-dc8aa8a6bcf8?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-10-17T20:59:32+00:00

    Ive been having similar problems like this for months now. (Well one drive years)

    It started off as minor issues but with every update they just screw the system up more.

    20 years of using and loving MS products to noting but frustration. 

    I are seriously thinking of trying Drop Box for storage as I suspect one drive is half the problem for docs.

    Unfortunately there are no real alternatives for word. Yet

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  4. Stefan Blom 353K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-10-20T19:39:10+00:00

    If you find that Dropbox works better, then you should use it, of course.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-10-21T06:14:16+00:00

    Well Stefan, I did all that re-sync'd all my files, took hours and blew my internet account out, so now I'm in for excess charges...and first file I open READ ONLY.

    All I want to do is make it so no file will ever be READ ONLY, but it seems Microsoft thinks it owns the files, not me.

    I think Eat My Hat has the answer....move all the files to Google Drive and dump One Drive...it's One Drive and Microsoft that is the problem!

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