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Read-only for ios "files"
bobbychen This seems to have been introduced by a recent update to the OneDrive iOS app. Exported file permissions used to be 606, and now they are 555. I am an app developer, and I use the Files app extension (DocumentBrowserViewController). I am able to programmatically alter the file permissions, but I do hope someone from Microsoft development is going through these forums, because not only the 555 permission make the file read-only - it also grants execution rights of programs to all users, which is a serious security issue.
thanks for the detailed explanation, but is there a simple way to have back all permisison on my onedrive files, i'm not a developer
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- The description of the latest update in the app store mentions that the files were made read-only only temporarily, while they were working on something. I believe this is unbelievably irresponsible, especially since Microsoft is hardly a small-time developer, and also considering they switched the permissions to 555 instead of a safe read-only of 400. The only thing a non-developer can do is to contact the app's support by shaking the phone when the app is running, and hope the next update comes out soon.
Yeah, noticed the warning in the OneDrive app as well. But here on my iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) I have write permissions on the OneDrive app, but the problem is on the Apple Files app, with the OneDrive “location”... Is that the same issue you have there, I mean, in the iOS Files App when trading to work with files stored on MS OneDrive?
Cheers,
IGOR.
- That was exactly the problem. Files imported from OneDrive through the Files app or its extension used to have 606 permissions. Now it is 555. In my app I now copy the files to my app's documents and change the permissions back on the copy.
