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ashmelburnian
Jul 05, 2019Brass Contributor
Prevent deletion of SharePoint files
We had a situation where an end user accidentally deleted thousands for files under a SharePoint document library via OneDrive. The document library itself is accessible to everyone within the co...
- Jul 05, 2019You need to create a new permission role and assign that to users. Go to the SharePoint site permissions, it's under advanced on the home page. Add a role and select just the permissions the user needs and not delete. Now go to library and change the user group permissions to that new role.
Norman Young
Jul 05, 2019MVP
Hi ashmelburnian,
I don't believe that is possible with out of the box permissions.
Is an additional document library with read only permissions reasonable?
I hope this helps.
Norm