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SharePoint Online - OneDrive - Read Only Sync Error
Hi, about a month ago several thousand of our document libraries based on content types started syncing to OneDrive in Read Only mode. When viewing the library in OneDrive, green padlock symbols appe...
I experienced the issue where all opened docs defaulted to read-only (and not Protected View - there was no option to edit) on Friday (Dec 13). The library I am in has no mandatory fields, but is synced with OneDrive for Business. I tried unsyncing the library to see if that fixes it, but am unclear if it is linked to mandatory metadata from a parent content type like Nicolle was talking about, or if it relates to something else.
we cannot afford to keep metadata optional or keep syncing and unsyncing folders - has anyone tested toggling the metadata between mandatory and optional as a fix? I am curious if there is lag between when the metadata is made mandatory and when the read-only issue occurs.