May 01 2019
02:23 AM
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Feb 06 2023
03:42 AM
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TechCommunityAP
May 01 2019
02:23 AM
- last edited on
Feb 06 2023
03:42 AM
by
TechCommunityAP
In any Office 365 application, such as Word, Excel or PowerPoint, the titlebar shows an "AutoSave" button. Upon turning this function on, a dialog pops up where you choose which OneDrive to save the document to, and where you enter a name for the file. See screenshots below.
However, this dialog does not allow choosing in which folder on the OneDrive you want to save the document. All files get saved automatically in the "OneDrive/Documents" default folder.
Is there a way to change the behavior of Office apps, so that the user can select in which folder on the OneDrive the file will be stored in by AutoSave?
Click AutoSave button
Select OneDrive
Selection of folder on OneDrive not possible.
May 01 2019 03:21 AM
May 01 2019 04:21 AM
May 01 2019 04:27 AM
May 01 2019 04:34 AM
@Juan Carlos González Martín Yes, this obviously works indeed. My request here is specifically to allow selecting a folder, for any new document which has not been saved yet, when clicking the AutoSave button.
May 01 2019 11:36 AM
May 01 2019 11:54 AM
Jul 14 2019 12:44 PM
I have the same problem. At the moment I have about 100 documents all in root of OneDrive. That is "bull**bleep**", sorry! :(
Jul 14 2019 10:44 PM
Jul 25 2019 03:34 AM
Word should ask to which folder in OneDrive I wanted to save the document in. If there exists none I should be asked to create new one.
Aug 21 2019 04:48 AM
@Brian Reid There should be an option for selecting the folder during AutoSave as this improves functionality not, diminish it. It's a general habit to work on a doc before one has decided to name it.
Aug 21 2019 05:24 AM - edited Aug 21 2019 05:26 AM
@Paul_Van_CotthemAlthough you can't change the default folder for OneDrive in Office AutoSave there is a way to change the OneDrive folder WITHIN Word/Excel/Powerpoint itself but only AFTER you have saved it by any name.
To do this first AutoSave your file to OneDrive:
Once saved, click the Menu option for Version history on the same bar as AutoSave in Word:
Then click the >Location drop down - This tab also shows the OneDrive folder where your file has been saved by default and then in the next window you can move it wherever you want:
It's really typical and frustrating that Microsoft doesn't provide an option for something as basic as selecting a DEFAULT folder for AutoSave!!
Sep 24 2019 11:42 PM
Dear All
As this discussion thread talks about "Auto Save" feature of Office 365, I just want to understand whether this Auto Save feature has any connection to the OneDrive Sync GPO "Coauthor and share in Office desktop apps".
We have disabled this OneDrive sync client GPO due to slowness of opening the documents from sync location, this Auto Save feature is greyed out by default. When we enabled this GPO, the Auto Save feature is enabled.
But, the weird thing is that after we disabled again the GPO, the Auto Save feature is disabled (not greyed out) by default and option to enabled in the individual documents.
Can someone faced this issue or really this GPO affect the Auto Save functionality. Need your experts advice here.
Thanks
Chandrasekaran C N
Feb 03 2020 09:46 AM
Apr 16 2020 03:58 AM
@Brian Reid I, like most sane people would expect it to save back to the Onedrive folder it was opened from, not the root of Onedrive.
Apr 16 2020 04:03 AM
Apr 16 2020 06:58 AM
Thank you for your input, which I do appreciate, but....
The original files are in subfolders within the OneDrive hierarchy. When I open them, AutoSave is off. When I turn it back on, it opens a little box asking me to select the folder to auto-save to, and the only option is the root OneDrive folder. This has happened consistently, regardless of what files I work with. I've used OneDrive to store my documents for years.
Note that, at least in my case, this is only happening on the laptop I recently upgraded to Windows 8.1 from Windows 7. In Windows 7, the files always saved to the original folder and overwrote the original, as far as I can recall. On my Mac, AutoSave also saves to the original file location.
The laptop in question is a backup/portable system that I need to keep in sync with the desktop (the Mac).
I see no logical reason that we can't simply select the original folder location (which is already in OneDrive) when turning on AutoSave. I've taken to just ignoring AutoSave and going back to manually saving my work frequently as I go.
Apr 23 2020 07:12 AM - edited May 08 2020 12:18 AM
@f1demon Thanks, this resolved the issue I had, where auto save insisted the file was located in the default document folder root. If I moved it in OneDrive the Auto Save was disabled again and I was going around in circles!!
However, changing the location in Word as you described worked ok !
May 07 2020 11:15 PM
@Muzzo4444 Sadly this did not work for me. When I change it's location using the bar at the top, and then close the file and re-open it within that location, the auto-save is no longer turned on. And when I turn it on, it asks me to re-upload it again and puts it right back in the default Documents folder. This is pretty disappointing behavior and I don't believe it always worked this way. I'm not sure if this is the intended behavior but it discourages use of AutoSave (including for collaborating on documents) because I can't find a simple way to turn saving on and off.
May 07 2020 11:53 PM
@TurnerWFU If I open the document from the folder structures or from onedrive, I see the same behaviour as you - the doc will not Auto Save if it is not in the default folder. To resolve this, I always open the document from within the application. For example, if you are using Word, open the document from the File/Home/Recent list, Auto Save will then work irrespective of the folder the document was last saved in.