Project document made as public by mistake and sombody linked and copied.

min_kyu_choi

Project document made as public by mistake and sombody linked and copied.
When I turn the project document to private, what will happen.

I don't expect it can delete the exported file and I know it not gonna be possible.
but can it be removed from somebody's Onshape folder?

Jason_S

Changing the share permissions on the seed document does not effect copies that already exist, so the copy is out in the wild. Luckily every history state is recorded. If someone tries to get IP with the copy of your document, the version "Start" will show that the document was a copy because that version isn't empty.

The links will not break on documents unshared with you. When you RMB on a part that has the linked icon and select "Open linked document," you will get forwarded to the Documents page and get a message "Failed to load document for workspace. Resource does not exist, or you do not have permission to access it" if you do not have permission to open it anymore. 

owen_sparks

Oh, that raises an interesting point.  I believe OS allow for the original docs being deleted without that breaking the the downstream links.  This is awesome in the usual use case.  However here, with an accidental expose of what was intended to be a private doc that's a potential problem.

Interested in the outcome.

Regards,

Owen S.

Jason_S

Changing the share permissions on the seed document does not effect copies that already exist, so the copy is out in the wild. Luckily every history state is recorded. If someone tries to get IP with the copy of your document, the version "Start" will show that the document was a copy because that version isn't empty.

The links will not break on documents unshared with you. When you RMB on a part that has the linked icon and select "Open linked document," you will get forwarded to the Documents page and get a message "Failed to load document for workspace. Resource does not exist, or you do not have permission to access it" if you do not have permission to open it anymore.