Just signed up for Onedrive for Business and I've run into an issue with syncing a library to a Windows 7 machine. I enabled the option on SharePoint to require a file to be checked out to edit it. If I open a file directly from the site this option works great. However, when I sync the library to my computer and then open that same file from my local workstation I am able to edit it without checking it out. But then when the OneDrive sync app tries to sync in the background it errors out because it wasn't checked out.
The error I see is: We can't sync this file while it's checked in. Resolution: Check out the file and try syncing again.
An extension of this problem is that if I open the document from my workstation I'm not even presented with the option to check it out manually. Or perhaps I don't know where the button should be. I found this out while trying to follow the above "resolution".
All of this is very unhelpful if I can't edit synced documents when this setting is enabled. Is there a work around for this problem I've run into?
Joel
