Problem with... Powerpoint? Office? OneDrive?

Thirith on 2/1/2017 at 15:26

So, the following weird thing happened: someone sent me some Powerpoint presentations to revise. I put them on my OneDrive, revised them and sent them back as e-mail attachments...

... except what they received were older versions of the same presentation. I thought I'd made some mistake, but no: the file on OneDrive is the latest version, but when I attach it what gets there is an older version. Even weirder: I then copied the file from OneDrive to a USB drive, but when I opened the two versions side by side, the one on OneDrive was the current one and the one on the USB drive (same size and everything) was still the old one.

Anyone have any idea what's going on? I imagine it must have something to do with versioning - but it is freaky as fuck and totally illogical. Any help would be much appreciated!

Al_B on 2/1/2017 at 16:37

Which version do you get if you view the web version of OneDrive? It sounds like there's an issue with syncing between your local Explorer and OneDrive - PowerPoint is grabbing the online version and bypassing your local OneDrive folder.

Thirith on 2/1/2017 at 17:11

I think that's what's happening, yet it's still not behaving quite like I'd expect. I've solved the issue for now (I think), but before it did this:

- I'd open my OneDrive folder via the Explorer (i.e. as I would open any local folder).
- I'd open the PPT there and get the most recent version.
- I'd then copy the PPT file from the Explorer window onto a USB stick.
- I'd open the copy on the USB stick.
- I'd compare the original and the copy - and they'd be two different versions of the file.

Which makes me go:

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