Windows 10: My documents are being saved to One-Drive as default and I want them to be automatically...

My documents are being saved to ONe-Drive as default and I want the to be automatically saved to Documents. I can only share files now.

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Default location to save documenets

Hi Frank,

Sorry for the delayed response.

From your recent description, it seems like the issue is confined to Word documents. If true, then follow the steps below and check if it helps.

• Launch Word application.
• Go to File Menu and select Options.
• In the pop-up dialog box, towards the left pane, select Save.
• Under Default location file, browse the location you want to save.
• Check if the issue persists.

Hope this helps.

 

Cheap automatic backup for My Documents

Hello, I'm looking for a cheap solution for the automatic backup of my My Documents folder and i need some ideas. I was thinking that the best (and possibly cheapest) way to go would be to find some free software that would automatically copy over the my documents folder to a 1gb flash drive then in addition an application to automatically back up those same documents to a free gmail drive online. I know that one of best things to do is to burn optical discs of the files but I'm very forgetful so I'm hoping to get something under $30 that would give me double redundancy of having the files backed up locally and in the cloud automatically. Any help finding applications or other strategies would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

 

Utilities that I run can no longer automatically save files to my OneDrive

Hi Alan,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

To set OneDrive as your default location to save your documents and files, follow the below steps.

1. Click on the OneDrive icon from the Taskbar area > Click on the menu button (three-dots) on the top-right corner > Click on
   Settings > Go to the Auto Save tab.
2. Using the drop-down menu, select OneDrive for
   Desktop, Documents, and Pictures and click on
   OK.
3. Once you complete the above steps, restart the computer once and try saving the files generated from utilities and check if it is saving in
   C:\Users\myname\OneDrive\Documents folder.

If you are still facing the same issue, then I suggest you to contact OneDrive support for further assistance on this issue by following the below steps.

• Login to
  https://onedrive.com/.
  
• Click the ? Help icon on the top banner of the page.
  
• Select Email OneDrive support for the further assistance.