# Setting/Ability to Require account to download files

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-ability-to-require-account-to-download-files/19686>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [September 5, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-ability-to-require-account-to-download-files/19686 "2014-09-05T15:47:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-ability-to-require-account-to-download-files/19686/7 "2014-09-05T21:22:26Z")

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> [@mcwumbly](#):
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> We ended up creating a separate private sub-category for downloads.

Yes, but as @lake54 wrote in [Attachments available to any user with link](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attachments-available-to-any-user-with-link/18868) those attachments are still accessible to people with the URL. So not foolproof in terms of limiting access to attachments.

FWIW, I am not especially enamored with forums that block access to content until you sign in and use teasers to get people to sign up. I guess I just don’t like to be teased. The private members-only goodies just never seem to be as good as I hope they would be.

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