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Files shared with Anyone sometimes prompt users to request acccess to the file
MicrosoftHi DUrban11,
We are still looking into this on our side. Out of curiosity, are all the folks who are in this thread & have seen this issue occur in a multi-geo organization? Thanks!
Stephen Rice
Senior Program Manager, OneDrive
I've had this happen a few times. It's all internal, people within our organization. The link is to a file directly but it has also happened to a shared folder in OneDrive.
The complication is if it is sent to 10 people it may for for 9 of them. There is no consistency when it works or who it works for.
We are not multi-geo. All within the Greater Toronto Area but working from home during quarantine.
- StephenRice
Thanks for confirming thatashgirl!
We are still investigating this one internally. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
Senior Program Manager, OneDrive
StephenRice is there any update on this problem?
I have found that it happens more often with Safari on iPhone and Mac.
Please just make shared links work.
Add me to the list with the problem. The recipient of the link uses an iPad. This has worked for me in the past but not anymore. The shared folder is in another shared folder (called "Shared") and anything in that folder should be shared implicitly but even trying to share the subfolder results in a request for credentials. I find it hard to believe that it cannot be reproduced since lots of us have links that show the problem.
Hi, I recently encountered this issue and realized that it happens when sharing large files. StephenRice
- forget this comment...I tried larger files than the one with the error and the link worked, so the process of elimination discredits the aforementioned theory...however, trial and error has shown that sharing the problematic file simultaneously with another file, as plain as a .txt, makes the problematic link work. Strangely.
- Same here... sharing a link ('everyone with the link has access', without edit rights), and one of x users gets prompted...
When I sign out, I can access the link without issue on Mac and W7.
I strongly doubt this can't be reproduced... and the problem is not to trace what happens in detail, the point is to check in the code under which circumstances the user gets prompted when the owner has set the 'everyone with the link has access' flag... there must be some branch that (erroneously) makes this possible...
