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OneDrive for Business sharing entire drive when trying to share one specific sub folder
Hi, Recently several colleagues encountered the issue of OneDrive for Business sharing one's ENTIRE OneDrive root folder when merely trying to share a specific sub folder. Does anyone know ho...
You can't Share your entire drive, there is no Share button available at the root. The only way to share it is to go out of your way and go to site settings and explicitly give someone access to your OneDrive site as a whole.
Your best bet in this case is user education since there is no way to prevent this that I'm aware of.
Your best bet in this case is user education since there is no way to prevent this that I'm aware of.
I understand the point you're making regarding sharing your entire OneDrive. The problem (or bug) consist of OneDrive sharing the root folder when a user is only trying to share one specific subfolder or file.
In the case of a folder placed directly in the OneDrive root folder, one's entire OneDrive is effectively shared.
In the case of a folder placed directly in the OneDrive root folder, one's entire OneDrive is effectively shared.
So, you mean the shared with user now can access the entire OneDrive folder? What does the experience look like! Is the correct folder shown in the mail and in the "shared with me"/"shared by me"" folder in the users OneDrive webclient?
If so,
Also verify permissions on the users OneDrive in SharePoint!
https://www.petri.com/4-ways-add-secondary-administrator-onedrive-business
Is the users who shared the folder the only owner?
/ Adam
- Yeah Adam brings up a good point about someone having access already to their onedrive then they get a shared link and see everything. Something doesn't add up. Not saying this couldn't be a bug, but def. needs some more investigating to rule out any odd script that could have run, or the user doing user type things :P.
Yeah, if this really happens and also there is no permissions set for that user, this is a major bug! Can you please post some pictures if possible of the experience also
/ Adam
