PNG and JPGS with external share link

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External Share Link doesn’t show all Files like its supposed to. :slightly_frowning_face:

Hello Everyone,
I have a litte Problem with the creating a external Link in my Nextcloud and thought
that i ask the professional and experts in this forum :smiley: .
I really hope you Guys can help me out,
I would be really grateful because this is a Mystery to me. :innocent:
Apologies for spelling or grammartical mistakes.

The Scenario

We wanted to have a central location to send some of our cooperation partners informations and files. The Importance was that those files can’t be downloaded and
that the external party could only view these files.
So we made a Groupfile since a little Group intern is supposed to work on this together.
I created a external link, but the issue is they can’t see everything.
I don’t know if its maybe the Browser? We use mostly Firefox and Chrome.

Here is a picture of how i created the external Link in my NextCloud.
(I’m german so please dont get confused that the language in the screenshots isn’t english).

Here you can see how i set the Permissions.

Custom Permissions
Custom Permissions485×696 14.3 KB

This is the order how i did it:

  1. Click on custom permissions.
  2. Select in Permissions : Hide Download, Read.
  3. Save

View from clicking on the external Link

This is how it looks like at the recveing end if i click on the link.
I can’t open the PNG or JPGS at all, they keep loading for minutes in a black loading screen.
Sometimes it won’t even open the docx files neither,

POV external Share Link
POV external Share Link424×424 7.16 KB

Loading Screen
Loading Screen389×504 2.26 KB

Help

I really don’t know what im doing wrong over here…
Maybe i first have to make the Link in a specific Order instead of immediatly, like this ?

  1. Click on Only View
  2. Save
  3. Change additional hide download
  4. Save againers / formatters by those trying to help you.
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There is the option Nur anzeigen, did you try this?

If you only show, then it uses the internal viewer. Without the viewer, if you only let them read but don’t let them download, this is difficult.

Also, if you prevent downloading, it is just hiding the download button, in general there are ways around it. Consider it to be just a bit more difficult.

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You can prevent the download in Nextcloud. In newer versions, it is no longer sufficient to append /download after the share. But the browser has to display the images. And then the user can also copy them. Press F12 in the browser and see what is loaded.