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devildog67
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Can’t share file Sharing is restricted

I have 2 folders with 3 small json files in each. In folder 1 I was able to create View only links. In folder 2 I was able to create View only links on 1 file but not on the other 2. The contents of ...
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    devildog67
    2 years ago

    SOLVED:
    Ok I went back and tried recreating the folder (created a new one) and added the same 3 files. Again, I was only able to share 1 of the 3 files. I got the same error message when trying to share the other 2. 

    I then deleted the 2 files from my local PC and created brand new Json files and copied the contents of the 1st file and uploaded them to the same folder as before.

     

    That worked! Not sure why. Has to be something about the files although I created them the same way as the first. Who knows. Anyway, thanks for everyone's help.

     

    Pablo