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Iron Contributor

Jul 28, 2016

OneDrive Notifications

Before I could manage notifications about the editing of some files managed from other people with I shared files. And now? I can't find icon or menu to manage notifications on shared files.

OneDrive for Business

Vincenzo Annunziata

Iron Contributor

I am sharing some documents with other colleague and I'd like to receive a notification from the system when someone of them edit these documents.

Some months ago I have done it for a document, now I'd like to do for others but I can't find how.

For that document I continue to receive a message with the name of the file, the author made an update, the time, the hour and the link to go to the document....

Raejhan Cunningham

Copper Contributor

Jul 29, 2016

I believe Vincenzo is referring to "Alert Me" (the feature also in SharePoint). I think it used to be available in OneDrive, but it is no longer there.

There really should be a notification system so you can watch documents and receive email alerts for changes.

Vincenzo Annunziata
Iron Contributor
Aug 01, 2016
Exact. Why no longer used?!!!!
- MichaelHolste
  Microsoft
  Aug 02, 2016
  Hey Vincenzo, are you referring to OneDrive for Business standalone or as part of Office 365? If O365, check out this page. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Organize-documents-and-sites-in-Office-365-1a36030f-3e54-4c43-8401-b7bcd0d1c16b#BKMK_alerts
  - Vincenzo Annunziata
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 03, 2016
    Michael Holste, sorry... The problem is about OneDrive and not SharePoint...
- Raejhan Cunningham
  Copper Contributor
  Aug 02, 2016
  You have to turn on your Ribbons via the cog/options button in the top right. Then you can see the Files and Library ribbons, I guess it is turned off by default.
  - Vincenzo Annunziata
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 03, 2016
    I didnt find it...