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AndrewX
Jul 30, 2016Iron Contributor
OneDrive share link for folders to external without login
A user willingly came to see me to look at the possibility of switching from GoogleDrive to OneDrive for a team of 20. I was pumped, getting our users to move to OneDrive is difficult enough, so some...
- Jul 30, 2016It's coming soon in the roadmap ...
http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap?filters=onedrive%20for%20business#I-51699
I was always quite pleased that this wasn't possible, sharing a file is a positive action to share a known quantity. Sharing a folder means that anything already, or anything put there in the future becomes available. I hope they find a way to make sure users know a folder is shared however they get files into the folder.
Andrei Racz
Nov 05, 2018Copper Contributor
Hi Stephen,
I have the same problem. When sharing a large folder (almost 7GB) the folder can only be downloaded if you sign in. If a small folder is shared (under 100mb) then the download is working even without login. In the above folders were only JPG images and small recordings with phone.
And as long as I'm here, I will mention another issue. Files on demand on MAC sometimes start downloading automatically. I just open a folder but never click on the files and suddenly all files start downloading. The fix I found was to restart the app/restart the MAC or when these don't work then unlink the MAC from the account and then re-link it. This is very annoying.... This happens on 2 Macbook Pros.
I really love the files on demand and will be moving completely to OneDrive very soon so please fix these. Any idea when will the files on demand on Mac be updated/fixed? I know it was only launched recently.
Thanks!
Andrei
I have the same problem. When sharing a large folder (almost 7GB) the folder can only be downloaded if you sign in. If a small folder is shared (under 100mb) then the download is working even without login. In the above folders were only JPG images and small recordings with phone.
And as long as I'm here, I will mention another issue. Files on demand on MAC sometimes start downloading automatically. I just open a folder but never click on the files and suddenly all files start downloading. The fix I found was to restart the app/restart the MAC or when these don't work then unlink the MAC from the account and then re-link it. This is very annoying.... This happens on 2 Macbook Pros.
I really love the files on demand and will be moving completely to OneDrive very soon so please fix these. Any idea when will the files on demand on Mac be updated/fixed? I know it was only launched recently.
Thanks!
Andrei
StephenRice
Microsoft
Nov 05, 2018Hi Andrei Racz,
For the download issue, please create a support case (if you haven't already) as that will be the best way to track the issue.
For Files On Demand, files should hydrate automatically if another app is trying to access those files (and you should get a notification as well telling you which app is responsible). Have you seen anything like that? Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II