Office365 and Onedrive
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After many years of using dropbox as my main file repository we have made the move across to office365 and Onedrive. My question is simply that when I had my Excel reference files on DB I would saved them while still open and they updated straight away in LO. Now with OneDrive, they update in LO only when I close the file. Has anyone come across this before? Is it a setting in Excel Im not aware of. My IT guy is a bit stumped by the issue as well so any advice would be appreciated.
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Still the same version of LayOut?
Generally it isn't advised to have LayOut references saved directly to the cloud. This can cause the LO file to become corrupted if it can't access the reference locations. We've seen numerous cases of this.
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Hi Dave,
Yes, still LO 2023. I have had all my files on DB for maybe 10-12 years without an issue, its worked well, it allows me to work remotely and still have access to them. The weird thing is when I do the same thing with a skp file to LO which when saved is updating the file on Onedrive, this works fine and is immediate like before.
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I think you should buy some lottery tickets. We've seen lots of cases of file corruption due to working with files directly saved to the cloud.
I guess in your case since what has changed is the location where you are saving the files, that's where it seems the issue stems.
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Hi Dave,
Yes, my daughters who are way more IT savvy then me have often said the same thing. The file referencing works fine when from my C drive as you would expect but this doesnt help me when I am working remotely on my laptop. I will investigate more, I suspect its a Onedrive setting.
I see fridays USA Mega jackpot is US$525m I wouldnt mind one of those but I will have to settle for the NZ powerball this saturday currenly sitting at a whopping NZ$8m. Better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick I guess.
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@dave r said:
I think you should buy some lottery tickets. We've seen lots of cases of file corruption due to working with files directly saved to the cloud.
I guess in your case since what has changed is the location where you are saving the files, that's where it seems the issue stems.
Lessons sometimes are hard learned
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I have the same work flow for years and never have an issue, sketchup files, excel, layout files all in a local onedrive folder. No corruptions but I do have to close excel to update the data in layout and have gotten used to working that way. My guess, as I'm no IT guy, is how onedrive handle excels autosave feature where everything you do is saved immediately meaning the file is always being held by onedrive and layout doesn't like it. I've always wondered if turning autosave off would fix it. Or, because the feature exists, means layout can't never get full access to the data (because onedrive and excel are always connected) thus it's a Microsoft problem, not a layout problem. and potentially why most people are scared of corruption.
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