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How do you disable attachments in a list with items over 5000 items?
I have a list and it has over 5000 items, and when I go to the list settings, I go to turn attachments OFF (disable) I click OK and I get the error: The attempted operation is prohibited because it ...
I've had odd issues with list views in the past, not sure this will work for this but worth a shot.
Only thing I can think of is try changing the default view on the list, and add a filter so it return 0 or a low amount of items and save it. Then go back and try to set the setting. I doubt it will work cause it should never hit the list view but worth a shot, I couldn't apply anything to my list the other day and had to modify the list view to get it to take.
You could always do a customize powerapp form for the list, and easily remove the attachment field there. It's a simple process if you never did customize form inside the list you just hit the button, go to the form, click fields, and take out attachments then save / publish and your done.
Only thing I can think of is try changing the default view on the list, and add a filter so it return 0 or a low amount of items and save it. Then go back and try to set the setting. I doubt it will work cause it should never hit the list view but worth a shot, I couldn't apply anything to my list the other day and had to modify the list view to get it to take.
You could always do a customize powerapp form for the list, and easily remove the attachment field there. It's a simple process if you never did customize form inside the list you just hit the button, go to the form, click fields, and take out attachments then save / publish and your done.
- Unfortunately that didn't work. Thank you for the suggestion. I went and created a view and set the filter to only show 10 items and stopped at that and then set it to be the default in a modern list in SharePoint Online. Still got that error.
