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Vivek Jain
Feb 01, 2018Iron Contributor
Office 365 - SharePoint Online - Drag Drop creating unique document level permissions.
Some of users earlier experienced issues in trying to "Edit in Excel" from SharePoint Online, therefore these users then downloaded the document and when they upload the document back in SharePoint t...
Feb 01, 2018
Mmm...what you are describing is not correct and it's the first time I see / hear that using Drag & Drop is assigning unique permissions to the documents uploaded. This not expected behavior and it should not work in that way
- Vivek JainFeb 01, 2018Iron Contributor
Let me ask the user to do a test on same file in two different libraries. One by drag-drop and another by 'uploading the file', to see if that makes any difference.
- Renee BugbeeOct 06, 2022Copper Contributor
Vivek Jain did you ever find a solution? This is happening to us now. It seems to be caused by dragging from a local file server into a SharePoint site and it retains local domain permissions.
- AnonymousFeb 01, 2018Yeah, it shouldn't create custom permissions if using a default drag and drop clean browser. If these files are turning around and being shared thou, that could cause that to happen.