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DiVojich
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Apr 09, 2020

Option "block download" not showing

Hi all, I have around 10 users in 1 office who don't have the option "BLOCK DOWNLOAD" on their ODB apps. They only see this option for Office files (Word, Excel, etc...) for non-office files such a...
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    StephenRice
    Apr 13, 2020

    I don't have an article handy but can confirm that we currently only support Block Download for Office files.

     

    That being said, we are working on Block Download for other file types (as announced in the Sharing talk at Ignite last year) and you should keep an eye on Message Center for more news on that soon 🙂

     

    Thanks!


    Stephen Rice

    Senior Program Manager, OneDrive

     

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Lars365 😉

 

Excited to get this one out there!

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shavit
Copper Contributor
Oct 20, 2020

StephenRice  Hey
Is that mean mp4 files which where already in my oneDrive (while a go) will have this option of "block download" too?
Or only new files that I will add to oneDrive?

Thanks

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    StephenRice
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    Oct 21, 2020

    Hi shavit,

     

    When this rolls out, it should apply to most video files in your OD (regardless of when they were added).

     

    In less exciting news, we identified an issue here as we started to rollout and we're delaying our rollout of Block Download for video files as a result. We'll repost the Message Center post once we've resolved this. Thanks everyone for your patience! 

     

    Stephen Rice

    Senior Program Manager, OneDrive

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      shavit
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      Oct 22, 2020

      StephenRice ho Noooo   🙂 🙂

      We were waiting for this fix so long  especially because the Semester starts .

      Do have any clue when it will be ready? In a 1 month 2 months? 

      Thanks a lot anyhow.

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        StephenRice
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        Oct 23, 2020

        shavit 

         

        That about matches my reaction 😞 

         

        We're still working through things on our side so I don't have a specific timeline just yet. Suffice to say we know this one is really important and we want to get this in everyone's hands as soon as humanly possible!

         

        Stephen Rice

        Senior Program Manager, OneDrive

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