Preventing Linked Documents from Being Removed
If the user groups All internal users or All internal and external users do not have edit permissions on a linked document from an external file source, the document is removed from the external file source when it is added to M-Files.
This behavior can be prevented by making the following changes on the M-Files Server computer:
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Add the following registry key and value:
Key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Motive\M-Files\<version>\Server\MFServer Value name IgnoreACLsForExternalLinks Value type REG_DWORD Description Prevents linked documents from being removed from the external file source if document vault users do not have edit permissions to them. Value 1 -
Use Windows Task Manager to restart the MFServer
service:
To restore the default behavior, set the IgnoreACLsForExternalLinks value to 0, and restart the M-Files Server service with Windows Task Manager.