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Admins get 404 or 400 errors on protected files

Protected files return 404 or 400 errors even to logged-in admins and authors, so staff cannot open their own documents.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 19 May 2025 · last reported 1 June 2026

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Owners of membership sites, school portals and company intranets report that files marked as protected become unreachable for the people who should see them.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.