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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 !
This thread had a lot of activity in 2020. Here we are, 3 years later, and even with Windows 11, nothing has changed. There doesn't seem to be a way to have the autosave function work except if the file is stored in onedrive>documents. I have a whole hierarchy of folders under onedrive and would like to be able to select the appropriate one for my documents created in Office 365. These are in my case created in Word, Excel or Powerpoint. Of course, I can (and do) save files "manually" in these folders but it would be a help if MS allowed me to autosave them there rather than in the default (documents) folder.
- I too have a detailed file structure, mine is on my 'D' Drive separate to programs etc on my 'C' Drive. I want to work on my files on my drive and have them saved to OneDrive on the same file structure. The structure is there but I cannot auto save to that structure. Furthermore when I open my file on my drive the autosave option is clear. I reset it but then have multi files on Onedrive of the same.
How difficult is it to improve this? I/We get choice to save files where wanted everywhere apart from this, and as stated, this has been a point of disgruntlement for many years. Isn't it about time that this is resolved?PeterAWHurst From the great amount of time it is taking to fix such obvious numskull solution I would suspect fixing it would take rewriting Windows and Office. Seriously, I lose so many, many documents it is driving me crazy. I have Autosave turned on, but I cannot find ANY documents on OneDrive ANYWHERE. I can access them (old ones) through Word, so they are saved somewhere, but I do not know where. Moreover, when I get the path by right clicking on the document in Word list of documents I get a ridiculous path. Following the path requires me to sign in, but none of my credentials work. It is so frustrating I cannot even describe how it feels. Would anyone PLEASE let me know how to discover the path to my documents? Many thanks!
- I forgot to mention that in the list of documents in Word I get multiple "copies" of filed available to be opened, but all the "copies" have the same name. Whoever designed it must have been lobotomized as a condition of working on it! Please, can someone help me!
Sometimes I want to send the file through a non-Outlook email client and I cannot find the file. This is soooo very frustrating!!! Please, if anyone knows a solution where to find my files Autosaved by Word, please help!!!
