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AutoRecover Disabled in Excel 2016 and Cannot Enable
My system was set and typically automatically saves files and automatically recovers files when system locks up or crashes. I worked on Excel file yesterday for several hours, system locked up, it rebooted, and I expected to have Excel autorecover the file I was working on. It did not! I look in the Excel Options under Save and found there was an Autorecover exception with Disable AutoRecover for this workbook only was checked and greyed out. I cannot enable it. Why? How do I get AutoRecover activated again and keep it that way? Why is this suddenly disabling AutoRecover without notifying me or asking if I want that?
Same problem here.
It is a similar issue, but my autosave is not greyed out. My issue is my autorecover is greyed out in the Save section under Excel Options. I think I may have found the issue, which I think is OneDrive. I don't use it because I don't like storing my files in the cloud. I logged off OneDrive on the computer and logged off it in Excel. Afterwards, my autorecover was no longer greyed out. I'm trying to see if it will remain that way. I hope so, as this means my issue is resolved. I don't understand why Microsoft felt this should matter if you are using or logged into OneDrive or not then there is nothing to tell people any of this.
Hi Tyhitia,
In general AutoRecover works independently do you have OneDrive connected or not. It looks like some conflict in your settings if disconnecting of OneDrive solves AutoRecover issue.
