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Onedrive readonly (green locks)
I have the same green lock in "One drive" aka "OneDrive.exe" However i also have "One drive for busness" aka "GROOV.EXE" syncing the same share-point sites... and this works fine.
So if this is a limitation of the "OneDrive.exe"
Ok so spent 45 mins on the phone to Microsoft to find out that there is another setting you have to turn off if your using it. (not just the check in feature but the approvals one also!)
"Require content approval for submitted items?" needs to be set to "NO"
This will also automatically set " Who should see draft items in this document library?" to "Any user who can read items"
These options can be found under "Library settings" -> "version Settings"
Hope this helps someone
Guess what worked for me? I went through this whole post until reaching Oderbang who said the approval setting needs to be set to NO.
WELL, it was.....and always has been. Never once have I considered enabled the approval process for this library. However, out of desperation, I enabled Content Approval-> saved the change -> reopened library settings -> Version Settings -> disabled Content Approval and.....
Low and behold I got a pop up from ODB saying 'You can now edit your files'. I opened my File Explorer....yes...wait for it....and the LOCK WAS GONE!
Bless you Oderbang
TBC: will be checking with other library users who have sync it to the FE to see if this 'fix' also affects their experience. I'll let you know.
My end users have found that the files are no longer locked after they sync the library to their File Explorer. The problem is solved for me. Hope this my help others.
Hi Oderbang,
Did MS say that this is way the product is supposed to work? Or a "Oops we will try to fix it!" moment?
Dhiran Gajjar They didn't say either.
However what I will say is that they are well aware that the features need to be switched of in order for it to unlock the documents. They also didn't offer an alternative to use OneDrive with those features switched on.
When I suggested i need those enabled they said then you need to use share point online to access the documents.
- I believe what Microsoft have done here is break one thing to fix another.
Before, I could add a file to a document library with required columns via a synced file explorer and bypass the required column.
In order to fix this issue, they have disabled my ability to do this, which in turn, stops me from editing files.
