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Document Library Not Syncing To File Explorer With Columns That Are Required
Is anyone else getting the error "This site is read-only. You can't make any changes to files or folders on this site." I receive this error through the One Drive app when syncing down a SharePoint ...
The sync issue is well known and not still fixed by Microsoft in the Sync client: when you sync documents with mandatory columns, files are synchronized in read only mode. In regards of Drag & Drop, this is currently by design...Microsoft has decided that it's not required to ask for metadata when uploading documents to a doc. library
Thank you for this. I have changed the document library so the columns I previously had as required aren't any longer, but it still copies them over as read only. Any suggestions? Help!
Has there been a fix supplied yet?
So, you're telling me that if we have required metadata columns, we can only sync through File Explorer/ as "read only?"
...Is there any work-around? (without making the metadata fields "optional")
- Ugh, that's really bad. Hoping we can find a "fix" to this
- Thank you! This has caused me pain for so long without finding an answer. I made the column optional and I can now edit on all machines where I synced.
If only the error message explained why it was read-only... Is this still a known issue?
