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Files shared with Anyone sometimes prompt users to request acccess to the file
I switched my whole Cloud setup to OneDrive and now have to realize that File Sharing is simply completely buggy and not usable.
Minimum 50% of the users I share links with are not able to download.
When sharing folders and not files it ALWAYS happens, so doesn't even seem to be possible.
When trying to debug I found that in Opera browser it ALWAYS asks for login as well.
Expecting OneDrive is a fully developed solution, this is very frustrating.
I think I have no choice but to switch to another Cloud Storage.
Getting eMails from users not being able to access files is just not a possibility.
Just ran into this and I am going to suggest a possible conflict. Thank you all for your contributions because it gave me some perspective. I suspect that it is an issue of how MSoft is applying the permissions - or more particularly in what order.
What seems reasonable to me is that if the user is logged on to the system and when the file is first accessed it occasionally tries to see if the user has access initially rather than using the link's permissions. In other words it does not follow this order
1 - does the link give access
2 - does the user have access
rather
1 - does the user have access (chokes)
2 - does the link give access
The idea is that the document may have multiple ways to grant access and the order is important. If it chokes before considering all paths (as it might if it checks for user first) it would prevent the access the link would give.
Just a thought...
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- We also have this issue. Wanted to comment here and follow this thread.
