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Tristan-William McMahon
Sep 25, 2017Copper Contributor
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 ...
Sep 26, 2017
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
Kathryn Toone
May 17, 2018Copper Contributor
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")
- Villads ChesterJun 20, 2018Copper ContributorUgh, that's really bad. Hoping we can find a "fix" to this