It turns out the issue is not on the owner of the drive but with how facebook treats external links. Opening the shared link on facebook will allow you to view the shared contents of the owner, but once you try to download it, you are redirected to a broken link stating Error: 'access denied or you don't have authorization'. Issue: You open a shared link from google drive that was sent to you in a facebook messenger chat group or the like. ~I'm not sure this is the appropriate venue, but if you are still experiencing issues like this, consider this post.Īfter days of tinkering, I found out the details of the issue and solutions to it.
