MS Excel Files Open with "Upload Pending" Message For OneDrive Documents

Question

Recently I've been having the frustration of opening my Excel files that are stored in OneDrive and getting the Excel warning banner "UPLOAD PENDING Click Save to retry your upload." When I click Save, I get the warning banner "SERVER FILE UPDATED A newer version is available." I click the "Reopen Document" button in the banner, and I get a warning about discarding my changes. Then, the file opens as Read-Only.

I love OneDrive, except when this happens, and a few months ago I lost my local copy of the OneDrive files and had to recreate the local library folder.

I saw a similar posting of this from 2015, but it's closed now and it's suggestions didn't solve this.

Here's a screenshot of the first step...

[Moved from Office / OneDrive with Office / Windows other / Office 2016]

Answer 1

Hi Bazward,

I understand your frustrations, sorry for the inconvenience it caused. Since this thread has been posted for months, could you please raise a new thread? Our support engineer will look into the issue for you.

Thanks,

Jim

No.  This is just prevarication.  You've had the report for ages from me and many others - just posting and re-posting ad infinitum just increases the frustration and eminently demonstrates Micro$oft's lack of concern for its paying customers.

Just fix the damned problem, having found some decent coders after first re-visiting your coding and testing processes.

Answer 2

Had the exact same problem and this seemed to fix it so far.

Answer 3

How were you able to fix it in the end? I am still having the issue myself.