Files shared with Anyone sometimes prompt users to request acccess to the file

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...

🙂