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Office 365 AutoSave to OneDrive - how to choose the folder location where a new document is stored?
I have the same problem. At the moment I have about 100 documents all in root of OneDrive. That is "bull**bleep**", sorry! :-(
Brian Reid I, like most sane people would expect it to save back to the Onedrive folder it was opened from, not the root of Onedrive.
Yes, this is exactly what I thought, too - but, no, it saves it to the Onedrive\Documents folder; so that I now we have two copies of the file in the Documents folder hierarchy: the newly autosaved one in the \Documents folder and the original in the subfolder it was opened from. This is why I turn off autosave and choose not to autosave my Word documents to Onedrive. I have far too often been working on a document that I subsequently realised was not the latest version I was most recently working on. It's bad for productivity.
- A quick test has shown that the file will only save to the source folder if it is opened from the Onedrive folder, I use a NAS and sync my Onedrive to this.
I save folders to the NAS which in turn uploads to the Onedrive web client.Thank you for your input, which I do appreciate, but....
The original files are in subfolders within the OneDrive hierarchy. When I open them, AutoSave is off. When I turn it back on, it opens a little box asking me to select the folder to auto-save to, and the only option is the root OneDrive folder. This has happened consistently, regardless of what files I work with. I've used OneDrive to store my documents for years.
Note that, at least in my case, this is only happening on the laptop I recently upgraded to Windows 8.1 from Windows 7. In Windows 7, the files always saved to the original folder and overwrote the original, as far as I can recall. On my Mac, AutoSave also saves to the original file location.
The laptop in question is a backup/portable system that I need to keep in sync with the desktop (the Mac).
I see no logical reason that we can't simply select the original folder location (which is already in OneDrive) when turning on AutoSave. I've taken to just ignoring AutoSave and going back to manually saving my work frequently as I go.
Word should ask to which folder in OneDrive I wanted to save the document in. If there exists none I should be asked to create new one.
