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Access Denied - Sharing Folders
Hi I am trying to share a folder on our sharepoint site with an external users. I provide the link and they are asked to confirm their email and enter the code. This is successful, the folder wit...
Odd. Fairly sure I’ve shared from a library with more than 5000. Does that one folder have over 5000 or the whole library? Now you got me worried about a group of mine using sharing in a large library. I’ll test when I get in the office ;).
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We looked at the Allitems.aspx list which was showing over 5000 items. I have attached a screen shot of the error. I haven't had a chance yet to reduce the number of files below 5000 and see what happens
Alistair
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I wasn't convinced by the answer. Its seems to be something on the page i.e. the last thing to load on the page. I'll continue testing and update this thread with what I find.
Alistair
- You never did say, do you have custom columns beyond the default library columns in this particular library? Also are you on targeted release? Also try like i was saying, save the default view with only like the filename column only, and see if the guest can open it. Then you'll know it's something with the columns in the view.
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We do have custom columns but not different from the one that works. I didn't create the site but it's an amended copy of our other corporate sites that form our intranet. I'll give that a go and let you know.
Alistair
- I don't think this is the case. assuming you are sharing using modern library view or are you still using classic? My library has over 5000 and using specific people sharing option works fine for a folder in the library. I even tried to share a more root folder and used a view that showed all documents without folders and it worked.
- I agree with Chris. We've got loads of libraries >5k and I've not seen them cause a sharing problem before. If you can see the error for yourself Alastair and you get a couple of seconds before the Access Denied error kicks in you could try taking a screenshot and comparing it to a screenshot of what it looks like when you are logged in as yourself? See what's missing (and could be cause the permission problem). Not very scientific, but could work? That's if I'm right about what's causing the problem of course.
- I still be it's related to hover cards. If you do an F12 in the browser when you get the error, usually the errors in there you can kind of figure out where or what is causing it. But it's got to be something around the metadata columns and the permissions not the item limits, unless again you are in classic, but even then everyone would be getting errors not just sharing links :).
