What was worse was the files had also synced across the cloud and my laptop. I was as you might imagine rather annoyed.
Going through the OneDrive files I realised that virtually all the files I had created or edited since the back up weren’t working and “needed repair”. I hadn’t updated it since, as far as I was concerned I didn’t need to back up the OneDrive folder as it was already backed up in the cloud. I clicked Repair and then this message appeared: Sorry, PowerPoint can’t read ^0.Īs part of my back up back in April I had backed up the files from the OneDrive folder onto my external hard drive. The word trust made me think that this was a permissions issue rather than corruption. If you trust the source of this presentation, click Repair. PowerPoint can attempt to repair the presentation. I got this error message: PowerPoint found a problem with content in. However I was annoyed when opening a PowerPoint file from my OneDrive folder I got an error message. I had virtually no data loss, so was pleased I had managed to get things sorted. Well there I was thinking everything had gone so well. My iMac’s fusion drive had failed, I had it replaced and then reinstalled OS X before using the migration assistant to restore my iMac files, applications and preferences. What was happening? Well first some background. So there I was opening a PowerPoint file from my OneDrive folder when I got this error message: Sorry, PowerPoint can’t read ^0.