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Why is onedrive creating copies for my local files when I upload them to onedrive?
Hello, When I first started using OneDrive, the Word files that I selected to "autosave" are moved into my OneDrive without leaving a copy in my local storage. However, recently, I noticed that, ...
HI,
Did you ever find an resolve for the duplicate problem? I have a Dell PC and cannot figure out how to work from my PC local drive on autosave without it creating duplicates in the One Drive cloud. So irritating. Without a solution, I think that I'll have to completely give up trying to work from my local drive 😞 .
Yes. If I remember correctly how I did it (it's been a long time), it seems that it didn't have to do with One Drive, but the setup of my Microsoft Word. In my "Word preferences --> Save", I accidentally clicked "always create a backup copy". I un-clicked it and solved the issue. I use a Mac, I don't know how PC system is arranged, but perhaps you can find similar way to do it.