Confusion reigns with my file-sharing service

 Greetings.  Please let me know if you're able to successfully download my two recent zips.  I have set them to "view only" for the OneDrive sharing link, but OneDrive is telling me that neither zip has yet been shared.  (????)

Still working out issues with OneDrive.  Microsoft Support wants me to share by email only, but that's ridiculous--I should be able to share with whomever, a la a blog link.  An option possible at my online OneDrive, and which thus should present no problems.  But there's that word: "should."

The online/VPN? file links are set by default to "edit" status, so that anyone with the link can edit the file.  However, this option is easily changed, as noted, to "view only."  Thus my links are view-only.  Which should avoid any security issues.

I get the distinct impression that Microsoft Support has failed to understand the circumstances at hand.  Namely, while I can share from the VPN (?), or the online version of the cloud, I cannot mass-share from my personal OneDrive.  This is what I conveyed to M., but so far their instructions aren't consistent with what I'm trying to accomplish.

And I'm not about to collect 200-plus email addresses for file sharing.  Excuse me, please, while I scream.  (AIEEEEEE!!!!!!)  Thanks.  I'm better now.  I mean, is the concept of sharing from a site/page/blog/etc. a new one to Microsoft??

Lee