Have to double click files twice to open them!

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Have to double click files twice to open them!

I am using a MacBook Air and have an Office 365 subscription. I am using OneDrive on that computer.

About 6 months ago something happened and now I have to double click a file twice to open it. The first double click seems to download the file, and the second opens it after it has downloaded. If I want it to open straight away, I have to right click, open in excel/word.

This didn't use to happen. I am running Catalina Mac OS. I think it's due to this:

I change that to tell it to open with Excel, and click "Change all" but it doesn't change all - I have to then do it one by one for every other Excel file!

Can anyone help?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Dec 30, 2021 4:04 AM

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VikingOSX

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Dec 30, 2021 5:43 AM in response to Martin2345uk

The Finder does not know about documents stored in Microsoft's OneDrive cloud. It only knows about local files, whether on a macOS filesystem or found on a mounted share from a NAS solution that appears as a macOS filesystem such as from my Synology NAS.

The OneDrive application must intercept the Finder double-click event and interpret it as a download request to get the file on the local filesystem so that your secondary double-click in the Finder does what you expect. Unless that OneDrive application has preference settings to the contrary, this is as good as it gets. You should change the Open With setting back to the respective local Microsoft application for the document type.

You can also query Microsoft about this functionality with OneDrive.

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