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Scott Preston
Iron Contributor
Dec 19, 2016

OneDrive Download folders/multiple files as Zip

Are many people seeing the option to download from Onedrive multiple files or folders as ZIP files? I have seen one or two posts from people saying it is available in their tenant and I believe it wa...
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Salvatore Biscari
Silver Contributor
Dec 19, 2016

Yes, the rollout is expected to be completed by the end of December 2016.

In fact, I see the feature.

Here is  the link: https://portal.office.com/AdminPortal/home?switchtomodern=true#/MessageCenter?id=MC85785

 

Scott Preston's avatar
Scott Preston
Iron Contributor
Dec 19, 2016
Thanks Salvatore, I do not see that in my message center yet so I maybe have to be patient and hope that it is there before the end of the month. I am on first release so I could prepare for it but still no sign of it.
  • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
    jcgonzalezmartin
    MVP
    Dec 19, 2016
    Yes, be patiente :-). I can confirm that I have the feature in some of my tenants, but also that depending on the browser it works as expected or I see weird problems such as zip file not being generating or zip file being generated after a long time :P
    • Nicolo Manzotti's avatar
      Nicolo Manzotti
      Brass Contributor
      Apr 12, 2017

      I encountered similar "weird problems", as reported there: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/forum/odwork-odshare/anonymous-folder-sharing-guest-sharing-troubles/84a90f97-c749-44f2-81af-4736409dd975

      (wrong community, **bleep**)

       

      As stated in the post I have also contacted Business Support last week: I've tried today and all the problems seems to be gone!

      • David Phillips's avatar
        David Phillips
        Iron Contributor
        Jul 18, 2017

        Is there any way to turn this off per site?  I want to be able to download multiple files to Surface Hub (which can't open ZIP files).

    • PhilineVon's avatar
      PhilineVon
      Iron Contributor
      Jan 20, 2017

      jcgonzalezmartin have these issues been resolved or are you still not able to download the zips?

      We just see windows popping up and closing again with nothing happening.

      Thanks

       

      UPDATE: Found the answer here:

      https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Download-OneDrive-files-and-folders-5c7397b7-19c7-4893-84fe-d02e8fa5df05?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB

      In OneDrive for Business, you can't use Internet Explorer to download folders or multiple files. You can use Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome to download folders or multiple files.

       

      As an IE 11 user you see the download button, but it actually doesn't work! Everyone was keen to see that this feature is finally available, but wait.... not in the browser you are told to use for everything else Sharepoint/OneDrive related. Why show it in IE 11 then and confuse users??

       

      <rant>In addition I was hoping that this update would now let me download files/folders which have been shared with me, but this does not seem to be the case. I will hardly ever have to download my own files...

      A useless feature IMHO </rant>

    • Antony Taylor's avatar
      Antony Taylor
      Iron Contributor
      Jan 04, 2017
      From your experiments what browser wierdness are you seeing?
      • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
        jcgonzalezmartin
        MVP
        Jan 04, 2017
        Edge and IE are the ones with these weird problems

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