How to Turn Off File Collaboration in OneDrive ?

Hung Tran Minh {SPVB} 40

After turn on " File Collaboration " this option is disapear in setting on OneDrive.

I want to turn it off .

Hung Tran Minh {SPVB} 40 Reputation points

2023-06-01T05:47:04.16+00:00

File Collaboration is still disappear after I reset OneDrive
Anthony Clay 5 Reputation points

2023-06-09T13:38:07.7433333+00:00

I am having the same issue, I need to disable it in order to link an excel file (that I would really like to keep in onedrive) to a CAD document - but it doesn't work with collaboration (which I don't need) enabled. Please bring this option back.

https://support.sw.siemens.com/en-US/knowledge-base/PL8014932
GlenTech 491 Reputation points

2023-06-21T15:51:33.33+00:00

Did you ever find an answer for this?
Jerry Norbury 0 Reputation points

2024-08-13T05:17:14.18+00:00

For me the "global.ini" file was NOT in Business1 folder but in Personal.

I had to first "Quit OneDrive", then make the change to set this:

CoAuthEnabledUserSetting = false

Then restarted OneDrive app. I didn't have to set the file to be read-only.

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Olaf von Rein 60 Reputation points

2023-09-07T11:38:42.3266667+00:00

We have the same problem. I cannot follow all the talk of Group Policy. I discovered there is a file called "global.ini" in "%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\settings\Business1". It is a text file which you edit thru Notepad. Quit OneDrive, edit that file and look out for

CoAuthEnabledUserSetting = true

Set the flag to "false". Restart OneDrive. You should now see the missing File Collaboration toggle under Settings/Advanced.
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Javier 0 Reputation points

2023-10-04T08:58:45.8233333+00:00

It worked for me... Great!

Emīls Lipkovs 20 Reputation points

2023-11-08T13:17:16.7833333+00:00

Thanks this helped. In my case I had to set global.ini as read only after changing the parameter, otherwise as soon as I launched Onedrive, it would change it back to true.

Garon Evans 20 Reputation points

2023-12-19T00:06:59.2133333+00:00

This worked perfect. I posted it on a few other forums with a link back to this original post.

This resolution worked for me.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1295430/how-to-turn-off-file-collaboration-in-onedrive

Open Run (either search or Windows button + R) and navigate to "%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\settings\Business1".

Look for the file "global.ini". It is a text file which you edit thru a text editor (Notepad, Notepad++, Textpad, etc).

Open the file via the text editor.

Look for CoAuthEnabledUserSetting = true and set the flag to "false".

Restart OneDrive. You should now see the missing File Collaboration toggle under Settings/Advanced.

Note: You may need to set the file "global.ini" to read only after changing the parameter, otherwise it may change it back to “true” once OneDrive is launched.

Rebecca Geue 5 Reputation points

2023-12-19T01:40:05.72+00:00

Unfortunately, this didn't work for me. I found the global.ini, changed the setting, changed the file properties to Read Only but the File Collaboration setting didn't appear.

Does anyone know if there is something anything else I can try?

Leandro Corceiro 0 Reputation points

2024-01-04T11:30:37.4233333+00:00

Didn't work for me either...

Rebecca Geue 5 Reputation points

2024-02-23T00:37:33.1833333+00:00

I have tried this solution again today. I'm not 100% sure why, but it now works.

The thing I think I did this time was modify the global.ini while OneDrive was already running. I saved the file with CoAuthEnabledUserSetting = false, then changed the global.ini property to readOnly. Then Quit OneDrive and restarted it. I am yet to restart the machine.

David 0 Reputation points

2024-04-27T23:36:56.18+00:00

Olaf, you're the legend! I wasted a couple of hours of my life searching for a solution – I had disabled the feature years ago when it was still visible by default in OneDrive's GUI, but after a fresh install yesterday I couldn't find the solution to getting Excel links to stick to the local paths I give it – but you have saved me many more hours of cursing the MS gurus who are, I suspect, living in a parallel universe where logic and real life realities do not exist.

Why these MS gurus decided to hide this feature is beyond me. The clean install was because I get frequent sync errors, quite literally any time I access a backed up file online... and whereas resetting OneDrive usually fixes that, albeit with same data loss, this time OneDrive kept on saying it was unable to reset. Multiple reboots didn't change this behaviour, hence the clean install and the unwanted effect of Excel links being changed by MS to point to SharePoint.

Now that the Excel links issue is resolved, I can go back to having just one issue to deal with – OneDrive's abysmal ability to sync files between local and cloud.

Genuine question here. Which is more likely to happen between a) MS engineers making a robust sync app that doesn't give trouble, and b) winning the lottery jackpot?

BK User 0 Reputation points

2024-06-28T14:30:57.4033333+00:00

I had searched at length and never found a solution to this problem: If I save a Microsoft file (Word, Excel, etc.) that is saved to OneDrive as a PDF, the PDF opens in my default browser. This is very annoying because if I close the window the PDF opens into, I close the browser and all its opened tabs. I occurred to me that the reason is because Microsoft programs default to the OneDrive URL with a "Save as" operation. Other programs don't do this. The search that finally got me here was "Force Microsoft apps to use local OneDrive path instead of OneDrive URL when opening files." This did the trick. Many, many thanks to you! (The ReadOnly suggestion occurred to me before I read Garon Evans' post below, but I didn't need it.) I bookmarked this solution should I need it again.
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Garon Evans 20 Reputation points

2023-12-19T00:09:49.6433333+00:00

I posted the resolution on this post and linked back to it to help others out.

This resolution worked for me.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1295430/how-to-turn-off-file-collaboration-in-onedrive

Open Run (either search or Windows button + R) and navigate to "%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\settings\Business1".

Look for the file "global.ini". It is a text file which you edit thru a text editor (Notepad, Notepad++, Textpad, etc).

Open the file via the text editor.

Look for CoAuthEnabledUserSetting = true and set the flag to "false".

Restart OneDrive. You should now see the missing File Collaboration toggle under Settings/Advanced.

Note: You may need to set the file "global.ini" to read only after changing the parameter, otherwise it may change it back to “true” once OneDrive is launched.
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S.Sengupta 19,256 Reputation points MVP

2023-06-01T05:21:56.58+00:00

Kindly Reset OneDrive
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Hung Tran Minh {SPVB} 40 Reputation points

2023-06-01T05:47:55.6+00:00

File Collaboration is still disappear after I reset OneDrive

Leandro Corceiro 0 Reputation points

2024-01-07T10:57:49.68+00:00

As for me (after reset OneDrive and even after changing the global.ini and left iit read-only), it still don't work and my Office Files keeps refereeing to web address instead of local files...
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Gabriel Giolo 0 Reputation points

2024-02-15T00:21:45.9433333+00:00

I found a solution, that was unlink the onedrive on Office 365. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKQBfMZsv5U
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