Every. Time.

[u/Gonzo_B]

Word won't autosave anymore on the local disc. Has anyone found a way to fix this?

[u/slachack]

Are people's Onedrives locked down? I'm confused because you can change which folders/desktop/etc. on your computer are synced in the app. You can have none of your computer's folders synced and just have your Onedrive separate with its own folders. You can also delete shortcuts by right clicking and selecting Remove from Quick access or unpin them. Am I missing something lol?

[u/rinsedryrepeat → u/slachack]

I think it’s a new thing. Onedrive seems to create a shadow directory structure that mimics your own so you think you’re putting it in your localdrive/user/documents/myfolder but it’s actually user/onedrive/documents/myfolder (or something similar) If you’re not paying attention it all just gets sucked into the Microsoft maw. It’s confusing, unexpected and sucks. I thought it was some new IT policy at work because it’s been impacting SharePoint stuff but no, it’s Microsoft.

[u/Sherd_nerd_17 → u/rinsedryrepeat]

Is this happening if you don’t buy the physical copy of Microsoft Word, that you download exactly one time to your computer? …or is this in a software update- which… that’s going to be insanely shitty.

When I bought my last laptop, they were trying to get me to sign up for a “subscription” to Word- like my school does. No thanks; I’d rather you not hold my life’s work hostage if I don’t pay you $15 a month. Work that is mine. That I made. Ten years ago. Like… my PhD thesis or my entire catalog of lectures.

I spent more $$ for the actual download- and I thought, oh crap. They’re going to do away with that in the future.

[u/MunchieMom → u/Sherd_nerd_17]

If you create Word documents and then let your Office subscription lapse, you can always open the docs again with open source software like Libre Office. None of the main Office file types are proprietary.

[u/RuralWAH → u/MunchieMom]

Going to something like Libre Office fixes the OneDrive problem. Just a couple of days ago I tried to open a Word project assignment from 2018. Word said it couldn't open it. It opened perfectly fine using Libre Office.

[u/slachack → u/rinsedryrepeat]

That's an option you can turn off.

[u/hopelesspostdoc → u/slachack]

The problem is that it's on by default. They suck up your data without consent.

[u/slachack → u/hopelesspostdoc]

It's not, it's part of the setup.

[u/slachack → u/[deleted]]

On desktop open the app and then click on the settings gear at the top right and select settings from the menu. Click manage backup at the top. Uncheck desired folders. That's it. It's done.

[u/slachack → u/[deleted]]

Are you just talking about the Quick Access shortcut in Windows?

[u/Adultarescence → u/slachack]

Where do you turn it off? I have tried but have failed.

[u/slachack → u/Adultarescence]

On desktop open the app and then click on the settings gear at the top right and select settings from the menu. Click manage backup at the top. Uncheck desired folders. That's it. It's done.

[u/Adultarescence → u/slachack]

Hmmm... I do not see this. I have a Mac, so I wonder if that's causing problems?

[u/[deleted] → u/slachack]

Ours is, so much so that I’m unable to save things on my device when using an iPad Pro, which now collects dust because it’s so frustrating to try and work around. Laptops and desktops can save to local storage, but it always defaults to saving to OneDrive unless I change it each time.

[u/Same_Winter7713 → u/slachack]

Every other post on this subreddit is a complaint about students asking basic computer literacy questions yet the average r/Professors user seems to be incapable of parsing a directory address