Help with Word 2013, OneDrive, etc.

[Eel O'Brian]

When I use my Win8 tablet and Word to take notes and do a little writing at work during breaks, I don't have access to the internet, so it can't sync to OneDrive. It tells me it'll upload as soon as I can connect, but that's turned out to be a huge pile of bullshit.  It's been giving me fits and throwing up errors whenever I do connect at home to upload changes, leaving multiple copies of the same file, etc. I never know what the current file is. Today I lost about four paragraphs worth of work. I've looked around and can't find an earlier version, so it looks to be unrecoverable. I think I felt a vein pop in my head over gritting my teeth in frustration. Anything I can do to stop this shit from happening, or is Word just so cloud-centric now that I should just ditch it and transfer my shit manually from some other word-processing program?

[Mupepe]

I'll check when I get to my win8 stuff at home but I think that's a settings issue with one drive overwriting previous files. I used to have the same problem with music when I would sync it to the cloud.

[Eel O'Brian]

Thanks. I'm so fucking mad right now I can't even see straight. I'm about a day or so from saying fuck all this shit and selling it all off. I spend more time trying to fix issues than actually working. You know what's never given me any problems, and always syncs up? A goddamn pencil and a piece of motherfucking paper.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Can't you just keep the file in a local folder?

[Eel O'Brian]

It's stored locally in my OneDrive folder on the tablet. I thought that was good enough, since it's always going to be the most current, but evidently not.  I don't want to keep multiple copies of an everchanging file that I have to individually update and overwrite manually. If I have to do that then I might as well just stop using OneDrive altogether, since there's no point in it. But I guess I ought to do that anyway, seeing as how I can't really trust it to work.

[archnemesis]

A local Dropbox folder would solve your problem. There is also Google Drive.

Even though I really like Windows 8.1, I've replaced most of the default applications with superior alternatives.

[Reb]

Yeah, I was going to suggest Dropbox. It never fucks around with versions as far as I've seen.

[Eel O'Brian]

Yeah, I use Dropbox and Google drive, I was just hoping to keep these particular docs specific to OneDrive so I'd be able to keep up with them easier. Nothing's easy in the digital realm :'( 

[MCD]

I only use OneDrive after I am done with my docs and pics. Only as a backup solution and not for saving files that I am still working on.

I don't trust the clouds but I still have to shill for them.