Forum Discussion
File Types
- Jan 10, 2019Sure? There is settings for this , although haven’t tried them..
Also ms doc claims you can?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/block-file-types
Pretty sure Juan is right here, that setting is to prevent you from syncing the documents from your computer over, doesn't really restrict the file type itself from being uploaded to the web version of onedrive directly ;).
The file restriction for SharePoint / OneDrive is a web application setting which we don't have access to in the cloud, so you can't technically restrict files with that setting.
- Jan 11, 2019Correct, I was referring about the possibility to block additional file types so usersd cannot upload them through the UI and unfortunately this is not possible and this is why: file types allowed in SPO are configured at the Web Application level in SharePoint, something we cannot do in SPO ;-)
- Jan 11, 2019Yes, of course Juan
So to sum it up: not possible to prevent through UI, only when uploading when using sync from/to your device!
The setting does not prevent downloading when syncing of those file types if they already exist in onedrive
Adam- Juan M BaenaJan 11, 2019Iron Contributor
Thank you all for the response. So for example lets say I have a file locally on my machine and like to move it to OneDrive for Business but I do it through File Explorer as it has mapped already my OneDrive I could do a drag and drop or copy and paste (I would not using the web site/UI and clicking Upload>File to execute that action. In the even that we decide to try this file type syncing block, will that mean that I will not be able to drag and drop or copy and paste locally a blocked type file to OneDrive via File Explorer? Thanks!