To make saving files easier straight from your inbox, reference the video above and these steps below. 03:33 AM. Browse to the location of your newly renamed copy PST file, select it, and choose OK to return to the Email Accounts list. Select the Outlook account and click New Outlook Data file. What about saving the file in the location you want and them enable the Autosave? After that, install the tool on any Windows System and follow the below steps: – Step-1. See screenshots below. @Brian Reid I, like most sane people would expect it to save back to the Onedrive folder it was opened from, not the root of Onedrive. Click Add a service > Storage > OneDrive. Join a community of over 45,000 IT professionals. This thread is locked. - edited Note that, at least in my case, this is only happening on the laptop I recently upgraded to Windows 8.1 from Windows 7. Outlook .pst files are used for POP3, IMAP, and HTTP accounts. 05:24 AM Now, at least, I can create copies this way and move them as needed. Thanks for marking this as the answer. Navigate to File > Office Account in your Outlook client. Every weekday morning you’ll get IT news, tips and tricks, and SaaS updates delivered straight to your inbox. If I moved it in OneDrive the Auto Save was disabled again and I was going around in circles!! And when I turn it on, it asks me to re-upload it again and puts it right back in the default Documents folder. Then, you can save attachments to your OneDrive for Business as well rather than only to the OneDrive Personal folder. As this discussion thread talks about "Auto Save" feature of Office 365, I just want to understand whether this Auto Save feature has any connection to the OneDrive Sync GPO "Coauthor and share in Office desktop apps". On the Data Files tab, choose the data file location which includes OneDrive and select Remove and Yes to disconnect the file. If you are saving all files to your OneDrive file, select Save all to OneDrive ; Once the documents have downloaded, you’ll see confirmation that reads “Saved all to Email attachments” To open up the Email attachments folder, go to your OneDrive. I agree, AutoSave should just give users the ability to select the location initially, rather than having to move the file after it's already saved. @Brian Reid There should be an option for selecting the folder during AutoSave as this improves functionality not, diminish it. I greatly appreciate your input to this thread. But, the weird thing is that after we disabled again the GPO, the Auto Save feature is disabled (not greyed out) by default and option to enabled in the individual documents. Word should ask to which folder in OneDrive I wanted to save the document in. Connect and engage across your organization. I have been trying to get files already in subfolders in OneDrive to open and auto-save to their original locations on a new (to me, anyway) PC, and they were all going as new copies into the Documents root folder instead. All files get saved automatically in the "OneDrive/Documents" default folder. Select the folder you want to save to, give the file a name, and click the Save button. The laptop in question is a backup/portable system that I need to keep in sync with the desktop (the Mac). I'm just wondering whether I am missing something here. Thank you f1demon for this work-around. Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. When I open them, AutoSave is off. How to Save Emails from Outlook to OneDrive ? Click Add a service > Storage > You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. However, changing the location in Word as you described worked ok ! Select the file and click Ok. I have the same problem. Once you have an email open with an attachment or attachments: You have the option to save each attachment separately, or all at once. You can choose the folder that you want to save your attachments to. ‎05-08-2020 On my Mac, AutoSave also saves to the original file location. ‎04-23-2020 I'm not sure if this is the intended behavior but it discourages use of AutoSave (including for collaborating on documents) because I can't find a simple way to turn saving on and off. Browse and locate the PST file which you renamed and copied to a different location on your machine (in step 3 & 4). Also move it in your Onedrive from the root folder :), Why are you clicking AutoSave for a document that has not been saved yet. 12:18 AM. @Paul_Van_CotthemAlthough you can't change the default folder for OneDrive in Office AutoSave there is a way to change the OneDrive folder WITHIN Word/Excel/Powerpoint itself but only AFTER you have saved it by any name. Create and optimise intelligence for industrial control systems. It has now been added and shows up as an option. This has happened consistently, regardless of what files I work with. Now you can have easy access to your Office 365 email attachments from OneDrive for Business. Is there a way to change the behavior of Office apps, so that the user can select in which folder on the OneDrive the file will be stored in by AutoSave? At the moment I have about 100 documents all in root of OneDrive. I fully understand using "Save as" is an option as well. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. - edited To create archives, project files, or backup files of the Outlook folders and items on your computer, including Exchange accounts, you must create and use additional .pst files. I have Office 365 for Business and hence a Onedrive for Business in addition to my Onedrive for Personal. Please try the following steps to check if there is any improvement: 1. Community to share and get the latest about Microsoft Learn. If there exists none I should be asked to create new one. @f1demon  Thanks, this resolved the issue I had, where auto save insisted the file was located in the default document folder root. How to save your files directly to OneDrive. Just out of interest - when you saved any one of these 100 documents and clicked the Save To OneDrive option - where did you think they would be saved to given that it does not ask for a folder or default location? Office 365 AutoSave to OneDrive - how to choose the folder location where a new document is stored? When I change it's location using the bar at the top, and then close the file and re-open it within that location, the auto-save is no longer turned on. :(. However, this dialog does not allow choosing in which folder on the OneDrive you want to save the document. 07:12 AM Fully managed intelligent database services. In any Office 365 application, such as Word, Excel or PowerPoint, the titlebar shows an "AutoSave" button. Is there a way of adding in the business option or can it simply not be done? To resolve this, I always open the document from within the application. ‎05-01-2019 In Data Files tab, select the file location including the string OneDrive, and click Remove; click Yes. See screenshots below. 02:23 AM 5. When you run Outlook for the first time, the necessary data files are created automatically. That is "bull**bleep**", sorry! We have disabled this OneDrive sync client GPO due to slowness of opening the documents from sync location, this Auto Save feature is greyed out by default. 3. 05:26 AM. I see no logical reason that we can't simply select the original folder location (which is already in OneDrive) when turning on AutoSave. This has been driving me batty for several days. 1. When you receive an email with an attachment or group of attachments—documents, pictures, music or videos—you can now save them to OneDrive in just one click.. The original files are in subfolders within the OneDrive hierarchy. Empowering technologists to achieve more by humanizing tech. Thank you Larry. Upon turning this function on, a dialog pops up where you choose which OneDrive to save the document to, and where you enter a name for the file. Find out more about the Microsoft MVP Award Program. Re: Office 365 Autosave to OneDrive - how to choose the folder location where a new document is stor, Re: Office 365 AutoSave to OneDrive - how to choose the folder location where a new document is stor. I use Outlook exclusively for email and I noticed when I tried to save an attachment to Onedrive the drop-down only gives me the option of saving it to my Personal folder. Navigate to File > Office Account in your Outlook client. When we enabled this GPO, the Auto Save feature is enabled.