Allow direct acces to shared files using "real" links
If I have a file stored on my OneDrive account I should be able to share it and access it directly as a link:
http:\\oneDrive.com/userID/document.extention.
http:\\oneDrive.com/userID/image.png
Now accessing a file is dome using a link... to a web page.
Elvis Nica
shared this idea
Hi Elvis, can you tell us more about this suggestion? Currently you can access OneDrive files using the links, like onedrive.live.com/file_name.
18 comments
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Anonymous
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Really surprised to such a simple feature missing from one drive. We want direct links to the files like Dropbox has. What this means is a link that takes the person who used the link directly to the file itself, no preview page with Microsoft overlays, just the file where I can right click on it and save.
So a direct link of an image will lead to the image itself. Shareable links of an image lead to a page with an image preview with onedrive ui overlays. This isn’t what we want.
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Anonymous
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No response from MS, tipical
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Michal Atlas
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Actually you can create a direct download link with a bit of URL fiddling.
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Anonymous
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Microsoft needs to stop castrating their customers! I'm not going to buy your Azure platform just so I can upload files that can be directly accessed (a technology that's been around EXACTLY since the start of the internet).
All I want to do is to have images referenced by my Exchange Server's mail flow global signature (since I can't embed them directly into it). But I can't provide a URL in the HTML code because the response is a web page, not the image file itself. Or if it does in fact provide a direct link to the image, random internet users are rejected from viewing it until they browse to the 'share link' page, view it, and THEN re-view the direct URL file.
Point in short order: no authorization logic/redirect should get in the way of a publicly shared file especially when accessed directly. "Public" users aren't a user group - they're precisely NOT a user group. They're everyone else.
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Ken
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It is absolutely ridiculous that we can share with link but the links are not direct. I want to run scripts but it is impossible with the current way OneDrive gives INDIRECT LINKS.
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unknown.artists
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No Casey! We dont have! The 'direct link' is fake. I am going to explain what´s a direct link:
1. you click;
2. download starts.What happens with onedrive 'direct links':
1. you click;
2. you are directed to onedrive direct link;
3. you click on direct link;
4. download starts. -
Anonymous
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I don't think OneDrive allows you direct links. All the reason to avoid it and deal with Dropbox, they allow direct links on their paid accounts.
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Eric Campbell
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I can not find any of my photos from june 1 2016, through July 125 2016
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me
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whats up
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Randy
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Trying to use a link in my excel spreadsheet to pull data from an excel file on Onedrive. I have multiple users that use the excel spreadsheet and need to update links by accessing the file located in my Onedrive folder. Is it possible to make this happen?
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Anonymous
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xggdgh
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Tiredof Allofit
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i'm so efffing sick of this problem
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Karl F
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Searching "OneDrive download link" it's how I found the solution I needed. Method changes over the years. This page was helpful http://metadataconsulting.blogspot.com/2014/05/how-to-get-direct-download-link-from.html?m=1
Related, but not same: This past week I had to **** a user zip Excel files for download because on the ODfB side they only displayed in Excel web and could not be saved when shared via link.
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Diego Giglio
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Hello Casey, I think I can tell more details.
When I do a image sharing. I've the option to get a direct link like that: "https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2A1038ED216A4D05!1688&authkey=!AD0-2PonBKThx4E&v=3&ithint=photo%2cjpg", but if I put this link in my email signature, the client (Outlook) can't load this.
There are a service that working with this concept it is the tinypic.comI hope help you.
Thank you. -
A.
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He means he wants directs links to files obviously. And non dynamic ones. You can't embbed Onedrive files in forums. "We don't support dynamic files, please use a proper direct link to the file." It's nearly the feature I most need, having a direct link to render the PNG images in the browser in full quality and without your idiotic viewer and its ******** compression that murders the file completely. 2016 FFS!!
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Ryan Hill
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Late reply, but I want this as well. It should be an option when generating a link. The link that OneDrive creates does not work for embedding an image into a forum, for example.
P.S. there are ways to get the direct link, but they are all sort of manual and time consuming. This is such a common functionality of sharing on the internet that I'm not sure why it isn't built in (yet) to OneDrive.
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Vladimir Lysak commented
Now you can get a direct link to an image. Make a public access to the picture. But the path is too long. Example:
I would like to get a direct link to any file type, not just images. It can be used for hosting websites!
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Iain Hallam
commented
I suspect this means wanting to be able to generate a direct link to a file, and have the file itself download instead of presenting a webpage that shows the file.
