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Files app effectively broken with downloads disabled #5106

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Digging into how the Project Manager should handle files when downloads are disabled, I discovered that the current scheme in the Files app of not serving links (which I did in #5024) also affects directories (making navigation impossible).

I also realized that the current scheme disables viewing a file, but still permits editing. It seems strange to leave the file editor as the sole method of interacting with a file. Not sure if the solution is to allow viewing files small enough to be displayed in the browser or to disable editing, but I would have to lean towards the former as the latter would make all files functionally unreadable (at least through the files app), which seems overly restrictive.

Overall I think this shows that we need to strike a balance between avoiding potential permissions errors, and being so safe that we prevent basic functionality because it might cause an error

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