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AndrewX
Jul 30, 2016Iron Contributor
OneDrive share link for folders to external without login
A user willingly came to see me to look at the possibility of switching from GoogleDrive to OneDrive for a team of 20. I was pumped, getting our users to move to OneDrive is difficult enough, so some...
- Jul 30, 2016It's coming soon in the roadmap ...
http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap?filters=onedrive%20for%20business#I-51699
I was always quite pleased that this wasn't possible, sharing a file is a positive action to share a known quantity. Sharing a folder means that anything already, or anything put there in the future becomes available. I hope they find a way to make sure users know a folder is shared however they get files into the folder.
Jul 30, 2016
It's coming soon in the roadmap ...
http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap?filters=onedrive%20for%20business#I-51699
I was always quite pleased that this wasn't possible, sharing a file is a positive action to share a known quantity. Sharing a folder means that anything already, or anything put there in the future becomes available. I hope they find a way to make sure users know a folder is shared however they get files into the folder.
http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap?filters=onedrive%20for%20business#I-51699
I was always quite pleased that this wasn't possible, sharing a file is a positive action to share a known quantity. Sharing a folder means that anything already, or anything put there in the future becomes available. I hope they find a way to make sure users know a folder is shared however they get files into the folder.
Adam Kuszczak
Sep 11, 2018Copper Contributor
This is still not working. I share a link and try it on different machine and first thing that happens is to redirect me to sign in page. Why can't you make is as simple as Dropbox
- StephenRiceSep 11, 2018
Microsoft
Hi Adam Kuszczak,
I'm sorry to hear you're having issues! Can you paste a screenshot of the sharing dialog for when you are trying to share the folder? Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
- Adam KuszczakSep 12, 2018Copper Contributor
so I think it depends on how large the file to share is. For small files it starts download the second you go to url. For large files, I guess it takes a while to initialize download so the redirect kicks in first.
- StephenRiceSep 12, 2018
Microsoft
Hi Adam,
That's definitely odd. Regardless of the file size, the link should take you to the viewer for the file (what type of file is it by the way?) Can you send a private message so we can debug further? Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II