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A request for help: SharePoint causing tons of sync problems?
Seeing your NGSC version, I guess that you are also on Windows Insider.
Of course, I cannot say if the issues you are experiencing are actually due to installing Insider builds, but, in general, Insider (aka beta) versions of both Windows and Office should be avoided on production machines.
Also, instead of reusing existing Office documents, you should use Office templates. See for example http://www.techadvisory.org/2014/01/using-office-templates/
Finally, you could disable Autosave completely or only for single files. See https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-is-autosave-6d6bd723-ebfd-4e40-b5f6-ae6e8088f7a5
Hope it helps...
More problems. Over the weekend I've been working a lot on a document that I need some colleagues to review before sending to a client today. From the desktop Word I used the send link function to send to my colleagues (one inside the organization and two outside) with the anyone can edit functionality. The send link worked in my testing yesterday, but today none of my colleagues are able to open it, the link opens a new browser tab and works for a long time before eventually timing out.
So now I'm trying to send an old fashioned attachment. Except the file on my computer that should be syncing with SharePoint shows that it has not been modified in days. I do see the file in the recently modified list in Word, but trying to open it puts Word in a not-responding mode for a long time and then I've seen two different error messages.
1) The network is not present or not started
2) The server you are trying to access is using an authentication protocol not supported by this version of Office
I've logged into SPO and can see the file with today's modified date, but I can also not access from there. Trying to open in Desktop Word gave me error #1 again, and trying to access via Word Online gives me "An error has occurred on the server."
I suspect that when I uninstalled and reinstalled the NGSC over the weekend, that the Shaprepoint sites didn't automatically start syncing again to the laptop even though I connected my two Office365 accounts to them, I think that just handles the ODfB parts, and I would have to somehow resync the entire SP libraries manually?
I've seen your link to the production version of Office, and will plan on downloading that later today. But I really want to try to get access to this file first, before doing anything else that might break things more.
At this point, I am afraid that your setup is heavily scrambled.
I would suggest contacting Microsoft support.
(Another approach could be rebuilding the machine from scratch, this time using only production builds of everything.)
For solving the immediate problem, have you tried to download locally (e.g. to the desktop) the file from the web UI and send it from there?
The touchscreen on my laptop has been giving me issues to, so opened up a support ticket for that today and they are requesting I send it back. Likely the laptop will be wiped before I get it back, so that will give me a chance to start fresh. But I haven't been focusing on it, but my older Win 7 computer with Office 2010 is a production build, and also has had many of the same issues with SharePoint. I had originally chalked that up to just being Office 2010 and not having full support for the new features, but now I'm not so sure.
Reid, OneDrive sync client works fairly well for me and all my customers, not to mention most of the people in this community and their customers. (BTW, as I have said many times, I don't think that it is always a good idea to sync locally the files that are shared, but this is another story...)
Hence, making short a long discussion, local sync should work, point.
If it doesn't, either you have some problem in your tenant, and then you should open a ticket with Microsoft, or you are doing something "wrong" locally, and then you should try to understand what.
Speaking about Win 7/Office 2010, IMHO Microsoft is doing an incredible job trying to have Office 365 working with such legacy software, but, of course, they cannot succeed in every aspect.
So, my obvious advice is to upgrade to Win 10 and Office 2016 Pro Plus as soon as possible.
Regards.
So I received my computer back with a fresh install of the OS as expected. Since then I've been trying to only slowly add back programs and keep as much at the default settings as I can stand. Windows has been updated and is on the Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted). I am using Office 2016 ProPlus Retail. I'm not sure if there is an issue, because when I originally installed it I was forced to associate it with an email account, and so I used the same account as I have an Office 365 subscription with, but I do not want to use a subscription version of Office (I will not be at this job for that much longer, and do not want to lose access to Office when I leave).
The OneDrive client is 18.044.0301.0006, which has only updated via Windows Update as far as I know. I've disconnected my Windows 7 machine from OneDrive, so that shouldn't cause any conflicts if it ever was. I've only connected one of my Office 365 accounts to OneDrive for Business so far, and am syncing one SharePoint folder. This Office 365 account is a different account than the one that is associated with the Office 2016 install, in case that matters.
So even with these changes I've been facing mostly the same issues as before. Files that should have a cloud by them in the Outlook attach file dialog only show up as local files. Files that do have a cloud icon will not attach a link to a message, I get the cannot find this file error message. Starting a couple of days ago when I was working on some files in Word that were saved to my ODfB folder I received error messages that cannot be dismissed saying "Upload Blocked" and something about needing to signin to my account. Of course I was already signed in, and signing in again didn't do anything to fix the problem. I tried saving instead to the synced SharePoint folder for the same account, but still got the same error. Searching for fixes I saw a suggestion to clear out the credential manager of Microsoft, Office, and OneDrive accounts. There were about a dozen of these listed in the credential manager, associated with 4 different Microsoft accounts. Clearing them out seems to have fixed the syncing issue, but I'm worried that it will just return again as I have need to use various MS accounts again. And I still don't have the cloud attachment bug fixed.
I'm pretty frustrated, and just about ready to throw in the towel on integration. Cut down my work Office 365 account to just Exchange, and move our file server to Box or Dropbox which we've used without any problems for years...but figured before I rule all my past efforts a sunk cost, I'd try to see if there are any last suggestions for what might be going wrong, or more importantly how to fix it.