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Office 365 AutoSave to OneDrive - how to choose the folder location where a new document is stored?
f1demon Thanks, this resolved the issue I had, where auto save insisted the file was located in the default document folder root. If I moved it in OneDrive the Auto Save was disabled again and I was going around in circles!!
However, changing the location in Word as you described worked ok !
Muzzo4444 Sadly this did not work for me. When I change it's location using the bar at the top, and then close the file and re-open it within that location, the auto-save is no longer turned on. And when I turn it on, it asks me to re-upload it again and puts it right back in the default Documents folder. This is pretty disappointing behavior and I don't believe it always worked this way. I'm not sure if this is the intended behavior but it discourages use of AutoSave (including for collaborating on documents) because I can't find a simple way to turn saving on and off.
TurnerWFU If I open the document from the folder structures or from onedrive, I see the same behaviour as you - the doc will not Auto Save if it is not in the default folder. To resolve this, I always open the document from within the application. For example, if you are using Word, open the document from the File/Home/Recent list, Auto Save will then work irrespective of the folder the document was last saved in.
Muzzo4444 Oh how fascinating, I did not realize that. I also realized that there is a setting in OneDrive that I needed to change. If I right click on the OneDrive icon in the taskbar, then Settings --> Office I needed to check the "Use Office applications to sync Office files that I open" option. It was off previously, and once I made this change it seems to work when I turn on autosave even after opening the file from the folder.
.TurnerWFU Many thanks for that little Tip. I did not have that setting turned on in the OneDrive Settings either, so I have just repeated my test with that setting turned on, and the AutoSave worked when I opened the doc from the folder!