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Office 365 AutoSave to OneDrive - how to choose the folder location where a new document is stored?
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!
Muzzo4444 Slowly but surely we can accumulate a record of what works for others when they come searching...
I attempted to reply here and my reply went nowhere ... is the thread now closed?
I'm trying to get this to work on Windows 8.1, on a Dell laptop that I upgraded not long ago from Windows 7. AutoSave worked just fine on Windows 7. It also still works fine on my other system, which is a Mac running Catalina. It's only since upgrading this computer that it has been broken.
Neither of these suggested options worked for me. Opening the document (the original of which is already saved within the OneDrive folder hierarchy, in a subfolder) from within Word, and then turning on Auto Save , only gave me the option to AutoSave the document to the root OneDrive folder.When I right click on Settings in the OneDrive cloud taskbar icon, there is no option for Office settings at all. On the More Info item, Go To PC Settings also has no "Office" option. The defaults are all set already to save documents to OneDrive.
