Onedrive cant download shared file

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Humans of IT. Green Tech. MVP Award Program. Video Hub Azure. Microsoft Business. Microsoft Enterprise. Browse All Community Hubs. I deleted all share links that I had created. I even rebooted my internet modem and wifi router.

In addition to using the original folders I was trying to share with previous share links deleted , I also set up entirely new folders to share.

After trying several different downloads - I attempted to download single files, a group of files and also the entire folder - I come to a possible conclusion that there is a size limitation that dictates whether there is a requirement to sign into a OneDrive account. I have tried a variety of other partial folder downloads and the cutoff point always seems to be 2 GB.

I picked files that put me barely over 2 GB and I got the popup box requiring signin. If not, please advise next steps.

Note: I don't have this limitation with Google Drive. I can download the entire folder of 28 files and 6. I can also download an entire folder of files and 6.

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Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 1 person found this reply helpful. We appreciate your efforts in trying some steps to isolate this concern about the OneDrive shared link that will not require to sign into an account. There should be no limitation when it comes to the files that the user to whom the file was shared to, to be required to sign into a Microsoft account to view the said files. It would be better to have our Office Support team check this and they may have other suggestions on how this can be sorted, especially it was mentioned that this is not what seems to be happening before.

To do so, you may click this: Contact Microsoft Support , then type your concern in the box, click on Get Help, then at the bottom part of the page, select Live Chat.

Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Any help would be greatly appreciated. This thread is locked. Step 4. Check if the OneDrive icon disappears from your notifications area inside the taskbar, and then appear again after several minutes. Step 2. If not, scroll down to the next method.

It is confirmed that many users have fixed this problem successfully by re-installing the OneDrive application.

Inside the Applications window, search for OneDrive by name and click the Uninstall button. After that, you can download OneDrive from here and re-install this application by the on-screen prompts. At last, you can check if this issue still persists.