Forum Discussion
Files [READ ONLY] but no indication they are, so cannot save changes
I have the latest (ends in .1212) client and am still seeing an issue that has been there since the initial release back in Sept/Oct. I can open a file in Excel, either from the MRU list in Excel...
Thank you Ed for the meticulous documentation of this issue. We see the same behavior: not every open of a file, but a lot of them, result in unexpected read-only. It seems to happen most frequently when opening through the MRU menu. Using the latest NGSC and Office suite. Would love to hear from Microsoft on this.
Dale and Ed-
Is it possible that the files that are doing this are created in a version prior to Office 2016 and they have to be converted before they act correctly?
No, because for us the problem stopped about 6-8 months ago, so clearly a OneDrive code fix either removed the issue or severely mitigated it.
