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Prevent shared files from being downloaded

I think it would be great if there was some setting to turn download's of a shared file or folder ON\OFF... what I mean is suppose I want to share a File\Folder with someone, I would only want them to be able to view\edit it online and not be able to download it onto their computer.. to take this idea further, it could also be helpful if you could prevent copying content from shared files... the download permission could probably be visible once a user decides to share a particular file with someone

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    You know, sure maybe there is a way for someone to get access to the file URL or whatever and download it, but let me give you an example here:

    I want to share a video that others can watch, but we want to prevent the file from being downloaded so that it doesn't get shared that way.

    You OneDrive web app basically has a built in video player. Sure, there are ways to capture this, but just allow someone to remove the d*** "Download" button from the web app!

    You know, if I really want to steal a bike with a lock, I could probably do it. But just having a lock prevents those crimes of opportunity. Get what I am saying???

  • James Armstrong commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    With GDPR coming down the line the ability to stop people from downloading and editing files offline, then sending them to everyone else, would be huge.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This feature alone is the only reason I can't convince my business to subscribe to a onedrive business account. We need our files to be viewed, but don't want the ability for people to download without permission. Is there another microsoft service that allows this? Perhaps OneNote? I'll dig into that next.

  • Chad Wetsch commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please implement this feature - it's the only hiccup at this time for us moving to onedrive

  • Alex commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    If this sort of protection is instituted, you would pull multitudes over from Google docs that are all looking for this same security.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree with this idea. We should be able to share folders/albums etc without people being able to edit/download them. Also, it would be good if we were able to put copyright watermarks on the photos (like you can in Picasa).

  • Joel Kingston commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hello Admin, Is there any update on this please? I think this is a critical requirement for collaboration? @douglas

  • [Deleted User] commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    How about a shared link behavior that defaults to "open in browser." Reduce the # of clicks required to interact with a file & obviate the need to delete clutter files I didn't want to download multiple times.

  • Al Schmidutz commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is an important feature.

    At least until people who can’t grasp the concept of collaboration. <Download, Attach, Share> <Download a copy> are unacceptable in this day in age. It wasn’t acceptable for online collaboration in 2015 when the thread orginated and its not acceptable in 2017 either.

  • Marvin Milstein commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I know budgets are tight with your founder hanging by a mere $80 billion thread over total financial ruin and all, but could poor poverty-stricken MS scrape up a few dollars to help us all? Seems the cash cow needs some grain and maybe a few hands full of oats...are we being unreasonable here? There is some irony here also when Microsoft worked so hard at protecting their proprietary code but shows no empathy for those who use their products and would like to do the same....not mad...just a little disappointed.

  • Rebecca Wells commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I need a platform to share docs without fear of further modification or distribution! Please help!

  • Poussemousse commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I totally agree with this idea, according to me File permission is one of the main expectation with File sharing.
    I would like to have at least a read only (or view only) mode, where people see the file but can't modify neither download it.

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