Changed location of OneDrive; now Office 2013 apps crash?

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2014-07
  • A T

    My C partition is small; so I have moved OneDrive to a different partition.

    This works fine when I used Windows 8.1's SkyDrive app to open documents stored there; and when I used Windows Explorer.

    However when I click "My Name OneDrive" then "Documents" the program (be it Word, Visio, Excel etc.) crashes then relaunches itself.

    How do I replace the path where Office 2013 looks for OneDrive with where my system looks for it?

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  • Tom A. Vibeto

    I might be mistaken about this, but Word 2013 "My Name OneDrive" doesnt actually check your local OneDrive, but shows a virtual folder to "https://d.docs.live.net/[user-id]/". So if you are unable to connect to this url, Word 2013 might crash, i would imagine.

    Another possible source of error could be if you have moved one of your system folders to point to a OneDrive folder. I did that with my picture folder, moved the pointer of %userprofile%/pictures to point to /OneDrive/Pictures. This caused modern-apps which featured picture upload to crash when i tried to browse pictures in both OneDrive and local folder. Might it be the same thing happening with you?


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  • Sam

    I've synced my SkyDrive-Account to a local Folder. For Office 2010 everything is as it should be.

    But Office 2013 annoys me: When I open a file in my local Folder (which is synced to SkyDrive) it will try and download the file again, even though it already sits on my hard drive.

    Even more annoying is saving the file (or save as): I just want to save the file to my local folder (and let the SkyDrive sync handle the upload), but Office 2013 insists to upload the file itself, which takes Ages and using save as the choices are some online folders when I just want the Standard save as Dialog.

    So how do I revert Office 2013 behaviour for local files to the old, even when the local files are being synced to SkyDrive?


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  • Steve Richards

    This blog post from Microsoft explains why Office 2013 and Skydrive work this way

    http://blogs.office.com/b/office-next/archive/2012/07/30/office-and-skydrive-for-windows.aspx

    This is a summary

    http://www.liveside.net/2012/07/31/microsoft-explains-how-skydrive-and-office-2013-works-best-with-each-other/

    Although in theory it sounds good I don't like this behaviour either and so I've disabled this option in the skydrive settings and in the office settings.

    1. The skydrive settings are accessed via the status icon
    2. The Office settings are accessed via the FILE > OPTIONS > SAVE dialog as described in the article linked in the comments above

    Both changes seem to be required to get back to the way it worked in Office 2010, ie always a transparent background process (but probably less bandwidth efficient)

  • Achmed Islamic Hernawan

    I understand what you mean. I just thought recently. Why not you uninstall skydrive and install dropbox instead? If you just create your document, just save it under dropbox folder and dropbox will upload it.