Save and close large files

I have a decent internet connection from my Windows 11 laptop - around 20 mbps upload, 70 mbps download and a ping time around 10 to 15 ms.

Most of the files I work with in the OneDrive area of my laptop are under 10 MB and their mirroring to the cloud is fine.

I also use files (mostly Excel or Word) bigger than that and they regularly do not mirror properly.

• If I save one of these larger files then close it a little while later, the file is synched properly and all is well.
• However if I just close one of these larger files (and am prompted to save it, to which I agree) I get one of a variety of error messages, ranging from saying that the server version has been edited to a message that I have to open the file and save it (or save-as) to synchronise things. The same happens if I use a save-and-close routine in VBA (Excel or Word).

This is reproducible - it seems clear that if the "close" instruction follows too soon behind the "save" instruction, OneDrive can't and doesn't cope.

This is annoying when I'm saving/closing the file "manually" then have to clean-up afterwards but I can do the "save, wait, close thing, and a real pain when I want to save and close from VBA when I don't have the option to wait between the save and the close instructions.

Surely this isn't how OneDrive is supposed to function, or is there a workaround or something else that I am missing ?