Files uploaded to the room are always read-only

[schiessle]

Tested on c.nc.com

1. user1 create a conversation with user2
2. upload a file to the room
3. login as user2
4. The file is now located under Talk/user1-<random-string>/user1-user1

The folder Talk/user1-<random-string>/user1-user1 is read-only, so all files shared to the room are always read-only. There is no way to collaborate on the documents.

Only way to solve it:

1. user1 goes now to Talk/user2-<random-string>/user1-user1
2. user1 changes the share permission of the folder from read-only to read-write

I think nobody will find this and most people will expect that they can work on a document together after uploading it. If I share a existing file to a talk room it is also shared read-write.

Solution

• we could use the permissions as defined in the admin share settings as default share permission
• we could always share read-write because talk rooms are by nature about collaboration

[nickvergessen]

As a workaround upload in Files app and then share manually

[pallavibakale]

Could we have a popup that asks to share the file in read-only mode or read-write mode, after uploading the file, instead of making it directly being read-write?

[nickvergessen]

The problem is that currently all files are in one folder. So we would need 2 different folders one with read and one with read-write. Or something a like