File Type Blocked - PNG

Question

For some reason OneDrive does not allow me to save a png export from visio 2016 Pro.  This is a recent development.  I have spent the past year without issues.  

Now when I go into Visio and select export as png, visio attempts to save it to my onedrive folder, after a while it times out and I get an upload center message that says Upload Failed "File Type Blocked".

I can save the png to my local drive and then copy and paste it into One-Drive but I cannot export from Visio into OneDrive.  Does anyone have recommendations on how I can fix this?

Update:  Irony is funny.  I just tried saving it to my hard drive and copying it into the drive through the file system.  The file is not sync'ing.

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Answer 1

This happens when the file is saved by an office program, in the "I don't know where"-onedrive folder (the one which has a guid as parent). If you save the exact same file directly from Explorer or from office, but by selecting from scratch the right onedrive folder, it works well.

This is an annoying bug, when you have to export slides as PNG you have to do the work twice... (or always browse to the folder with the right root)

Answer 2

Newly re-imaged machine. Windows 10 installed off a USB drive. Updated with latest updates. Fresh install of Office 365 and Visio 2016. Ran into this same issue trying to save an exported JPG/PNG image out of Visio. 

This info is correct that the GUID looking location that your files are saved to by default is the problem. Navigating to another file location (by going to OneDrive in the folder structure directly) and saving it there fixes things.

Or, conversely, I resolved this issue by abandoning OneDrive altogether.

Answer 3

This happens when the file is saved by an office program, in the "I don't know where"-onedrive folder (the one which has a guid as parent). If you save the exact same file directly from Explorer or from office, but by selecting from scratch the right onedrive folder, it works well.

This is an annoying bug, when you have to export slides as PNG you have to do the work twice... (or always browse to the folder with the right root)

 

This is exactly what I wanted to reply.

You can upload PNG an JPG files to OneDrive without any issue. But when you save a file to JPG with Visio is fails to upload. It is strange, because this used to work properly. Btw, it is Office Upload Center that fails to upload, not OneDrive.

I find this a very annoying problem. I even migrated to another laptop thinking it was just a local issue. But apparently everybody is having this problem. As a work-around I now save it to a folder on the SYSTEM drive and then copy it to the correct folder in OneDrive. I work a lot with Visio and save a LOT in JPG format for my design. This is time consuming, it causes confusion and... anyway it should be fixed! The problem is there already there for months.

To my opinion this is an Office problem, because it is Office Upload Center that fails to upload, not OneDrive.

I use Windows 10 (Creators Update), Office 2013 and Visio 2016.

Answer 4

I experience this issue as well.

I was able to upload the file using the save a copy function and then dragging the file back into the desired OneDrive folder. This only happens when saving files from Visio for me and only when saving as a file format other than native.

Answer 5

Any update on this?

PNG files cannot be uploaded to onedrive.