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Share Link not Loading/allowing Downloads?
StephenRice Over the last week, several different users at my company have experienced a similar problem. Basically they share a link like normal to Everyone, but the person receiving the link can't download it. The toolbar doesn't appear but a row of horizontal dots like a loading sign appears, then nothing happens. Refreshing the page didn't work, and the behavior happened in Chrome, Edge, and FIrefox. The only thing that worked for anyone (but not everyone) was to turn off pop-up blockers. That was Friday, and today I was able to recreate the problem from my own Onedrive.
This is really not good because the people having issues are project managers who are delivering files to clients, and right now they have lost faith in Onedrive. The last thing you want is to try to send a bunch of files to a client Friday at 4pm and then have egg on your face when they can't download them. I'm tasked with making sure we have a plan B in case Onedrive fails again. Please keep us updated on this problem!
Thanks,
Carrie
Hi Carrie,
Thanks for sharing the additional context! The team is definitely aware of the issue and we are working on a fix here. Unfortunately I don't have a specific timeframe on when you should see this, but I can at least tell you we're working on it. Feel free to bug me every couple of days and I'll bug the right people to find out the latest :) Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
- cknyghtJun 21, 2019Copper Contributor
Hi StephenRice , any updates on this issue? Our MSP says there is no "official" announcement that this is a problem. It's a pretty big problem for our company however, because now our Onedrive users are nervous that it will happen again and want to use Dropbox or Google Drive as an alternative. Thanks in advance.
- Jun 21, 2019It looks fixed to me, the OP's share link is working fine when previously it was doing the whole loading bar thing.