Sync File Authorization

user

Hello,
recently the app asked me to log in again to sync to my OneDrive Account and asked for the permission 'Have full access to all files you have access to' - is there a less invasive permission possibility available?

WorkingHours version: 2.11.7.0
OS + version: Windows
Device model: -

timo

WorkingHours always asks for "app-folder only" permission first. After WorkingHours gets this permission granted, sometimes the OneDrive still returns an "access denied" error when attempting to sync.
For OneDrive for Business accounts this is expected, because OneDrive for Business accounts require full access, as documented here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/concepts/permissions_reference?view=odsp-graph-online#remarks
The problem, however, also seems to happen for a small percentage of "normal", personal accounts. I don't know why and I haven't seen this happen in my tests with my personal accounts. Maybe it has to do something with where the "Applications" folder is located, I don't know.
Only when WorkingHours receives that "access denied" error from OneDrive when trying to sync with the "app folder only" permission, it falls back to requesting full permissions, simply because it just wouldn't work otherwise.

I am getting this feedback repeatedly in the last couple of days and weeks, and I'd like to investigate it if there's something I can fix or improve, but almost every time I ask for more infos, I don't get them (perhaps because users simply switch to another sync option, like Google Drive)... Not sure what I can do 😞

user

Thanks for the elaborated answer! What kind of infos would you need?

timo

I also received a similar report for my other app Diarium here where I describe what I think is going on - and what I will change in the app. So I hope it will no longer happen with the next app update (unless of course you are using a Microsoft for Business account, in which case this is the expected behavior)