MS Office Autosave

[southerndoc]

I would like to use the autosave function of MS Office for things other than OneDrive, but apparently they don't allow it. Some of this is regulated by HIPAA that I can't store in a OneDrive folder. Other things are personal preference (saving to my SynologyDrive instead of OneDrive).

It's rather annoying that Microsoft has locked this down to only autosave to OneDrive in an effort to force everyone to use their own product. OneDrive comes with my Office 365 subscription, but I'd rather not use it for everything.

 

[ian87w]

The closest you can get is probably to set the Autorecover timer to 1 minute (instead of the default 10 minutes). It's not a full substitute, but you at least have a recent backup if there are crashes.

 

[piattj]

Personally when I moved from Windows to Mac, I gave up on OneDrive VERY quickly. You're right that Office apps save to OneDrive by default so autosave is a NONO...

 

[icanhazmac]

Microsoft is getting worse by the minute. Can't wait to be rid of them completely, sadly I will probably need to retire to do it but I will certainly enjoy it!

 

[MikeDr206]

I find this annoying as well. I’ve internalized pressing Command S frequently, so much so that I don’t even think about it.