When I have the Drupal file download method set to "private," filefield seems to work, but trying to download the file itself results in an "access denied" error unless I am logged in as the uid=1 user.

I found an old issue about getting filefield to work with private download, but it looks like a patch was committed a long time ago:
http://drupal.org/node/113900

Maybe a patch was only applied for version 6?

Is there some access control setting I am missing? I scoured the access control page and found nothing for enabling file downloads.

I did recently switch from public to private download method, but this happens for newly uploaded files as well as old ones.

Basically what I want is for the file to be downloadable only if the user has access to the node... Any help would be appreciated.

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xjm
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For the record, all users (anonymous, authenticated, etc.) currently have "view filefield uploads" permissions enabled.

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drewish commented

do you have the upload module enabled? if so do these users have view uploaded files permissions? there's a bug in core that has the upload module blocking other modules from weighing in on file permissions.

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drewish commented
Status: Active » Fixed
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xjm
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Thank you! Enabling the upload module and granting upload permissions resolved the issue and now files are visible--or not--depending on what node they belong to.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.