Given that you are using Office 365 business, the recommended method is to use SharePoint to store the files online and Recommend using OneDrive for collaboration. Since OneDrive Since OneDrive is used for personal files cloud storage services, even if you can share files to others, we don't Is it possible to set OneDrive (desktop version) to prevent other users from accessing the file, when I am editing it? Thanks for posting in the community, I’ll help you in this thread.
Thanks for trusting me and your patience for this, and sorry we can't fully meet your needs at this time, if there haveĪny questions you can still come back and ask me again, I’m always willing to offer help. I’m so sorry for the inconvenience, to help improve the products, I recommend you vote for the above idea or post a new idea in UserVoice and send feedback to Office, these are the best ways to let the related team hear your needs, MicrosoftĪttaches great importance to user experience, your ideas will be considered to be adopted, you understanding will be highly appreciated.Ĭheck in/ Check out when SharePoint document library has been synced to local machine using onedrive - UserVoice Since you don’t want to work with browser, check in/check out function is not suitable for you, Thanks for coming back, you are right, check in/check out is only available in browser currently, however, based on yourĬoncerns, if you have checked out a file, even though other users can open the file but they can’t edit it until you checked in the file.ĭocuments to be checked out before they can be edited”, every files will be read-only locally, anyone want to edit need to check out first, and check out/check in requires an internet connection, so this can protect files from being edited in the event