Allow others to upload & create files in shared folders without needing a Microsoft Account
Not everyone uses Microsoft stuff. In order for OneDrive to truely be a place for collaboration, people without Microsoft accounts need to be able to access, edit and upload files to the folders that are shared.
There is already a setting to not require a Microsoft account for viewing or editing. This should be extended to creating and uploading. Especially when the collaboration project requires large files.
Jeremy Coggins
shared this idea
Thanks for the suggestion.
32 comments
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Benjamin
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As Apple and Google continue to dominate the mobile market with iPhone, Android, iCloud, and Google Drive, no one I know uses OneDrive and they prefer to use other cloud services. As I have grown accustomed to OneDrive and have been using it since it was Windows Live Mesh, I'd rather not leave it, but so many of my friends hate sharing pictures with me b/c they can't easily dump their photos in my OneDrive folder without having an account. I am just one user, but more and more I find it hard to find a reason to stick with OneDirve...
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Anonymous
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YES please. This is essential. If people receive a link to a folder with editing rights, people must indeed be able to upload files without having to sign in. By direct experience, people frown upon signing in, they get annoyed and it's felt as a commercial attempt from Micosoft to get customers. Thank you.
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Scott Wallace
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PLEASE OH PLEASE ADD THIS FEATURE!! If you want OneDrive to succeed and be used by more people this feature needs to be added for coloration or you'll keep loosing to Dropbox and their feature...
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Anonymous
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Our company is currently migrating over to OneDrive and given that 2/3 of our users work with clients, this is a key tool they have been looking for during the cutover. Please, please, PLEASE gives us a tool that does not rely on open links.
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Anonymous
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ADD THE F&·$%&ING FILE REQUEST FEATURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Anonymous
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5 years and nothing Good Job Microsoft
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nev
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I tried with OneDrive business account and it didn’t work there too. this is a serious problem especially for businesses and you losing out a lot in here.
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SDADM
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out of votes, but interested
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Michael
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still waiting for this feature...
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Irvin
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Has this feature been added? My team is really wanting to be able to collab with Microsoft with this.
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L Newman
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So the request for this upload feature has been reqeusted for over 3 years and nothing???
Get off your **** MS!
Fix this please. -
Anonymous
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Agree 100%
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Colin Bowern
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Copy the Dropbox File Request feature, that's what I'm looking for.
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Conrad
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We are using FileRequestPro.com to receive files from customers in our onedrive folder.
We also share a folder with them. Would be great if the can upload directly into it without requiring an account.
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Anonymous
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Same for me as for others: One of the only reasons I keep on logging into my Dropbox account.
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Chris
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Just as an everyday user: my daughter wants to share and receive pictures with her friends. While she can share them for them to download copies she can't allow them to upload and most of her friends don't have MS accounts. She had to create a Google account for one of her friends and is now having to create another account for another. This would be so much easier and a real selling point if uploads were available with specified link or with email provided. Personally I think a timed specified link would really be nice.
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Tom
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I collaborate with users from DropBox, Google, etc., who do not have a Onedrive account. Either allow edit & upload to these users, or provide a link mechanism to these outside services.
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Anonymous
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Please allow an upload folder where we can provide a link where someone can just upload to that folder.
Please allow configuration like - can view existing files or not, can delete, etc. I'd prefer a blind upload where the person can just put their name, email, file description and the file and upload it. No read access, but just so we can get their files securely and simply.
Box has an easy widget that does this and is the only reason I have to keep Box at this time.
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Anonymous
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I completely agree with this idea. I want to stick with MS but since i work with a lot of freelancers, I need them to upload documents and not all of them have MS accounts. I might have to switch to some other provider if this issue persists.
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Jeff
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One of the only reasons I keep on logging into my Dropbox account.
