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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, ...
To be precise, I shall probably correct my original answer: it's not that OneDrive creates a copy of my file, but I think it looks more like the old file is left in the local storage, while its copy is created in the OneDrive. So I end up having two copies in two folders: one in my local storage and the other in my OneDrive folder. The confusing thing is that any changes I make in my documents get synced in my OneDrive but not the local storage. So I started with having two identical word documents, but as I make changes, the one in my local storage remains the same and the one in my OneDrive gets updated and synced.
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.