Folder Shared With Anyone Can't Download All, Can Only Download One At A Time

Anonymous
2024-06-27T15:13:11+00:00

Sharing a OneDrive folder with a client and I've set the permission to "Anyone with link can download" and they don't have an download option. If they navigate into a folder and select a file, they get a Download link. If they select two files, the Download link disappears. So they can have to download files one at a time.

Their spouse, who is logged in to their Microsoft account, can download.

This is clearly a bug. Please fix this bug ASAP.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Make sure you're not logged in to your Microsoft account
  2. Click this link: Link to OneDrive folder with 2 files in it
  3. Select one file: You'll note there's a Download button
  4. Select the other file: Download button goes away
  5. Deselect all files and select the button next to the folder. No Download button.
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  1. Anonymous
    2025-03-18T12:56:47+00:00

    Good plan. Just warn clients that if they're prompted to login to Dropbox there's a link at the bottom of that virtual popup to just continue without logging in.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-18T12:10:55+00:00

    was looking to come back to onedrive from google drive as google drive wont upload more then a few files in one instance (feature)

    one drive is much faster but now my clients need to log in to download all ?

    glad i stumbled upon this post...

    looks like moving to dropbox ??!

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-05T22:36:16+00:00

    6 March 2025 and still unresolved.

    Downloading files one at a time isn't an acceptable 'feature' for a file sharing, cloud storage app Microsoft.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-14T07:17:36+00:00

    Hallo

    Has this issue been resolved?

    I need to share loads of files with clients on a daily basis and it, is very time consuming if they need to download each file individually, instead of just downloading the folder I shared with them?

    Please help as I moved away form dropbox - and now this is an issue!

    If this is not resolved I would need to move back and It is a very big inconvenience!

    Thanks

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-12-07T15:34:06+00:00

    Microsoft has told me this is "as designed." Use Dropbox instead, I guess. Or zip up files.

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