"Delete Shared Item?" Notification pops up every time files are deleted from OneDrive Shortcuts

Anonymous
2024-03-22T18:57:43+00:00

Starting from yesterday, we've encountered a significant change with OneDrive shortcuts in file explorer: whenever a user attempts to delete a file, OneDrive triggers a notification labeled "Delete Shared Item?." This notification inquires whether to "Keep Items" or "Delete for Everyone." It's crucial to note that this prompt halts OneDrive from synchronizing any further modifications made by the user or others. Only after a choice is made between keeping or deleting, does OneDrive resume processing any alterations to the folders.

Initially, I suspected this issue might be tied to the OneDrive setting "Notify me before many files that I delete on my PC are removed from the cloud." Nevertheless, altering this setting did not resolve the issue, as the prompt persists after each deletion attempt, regardless if it is just 1 file or a number of them are deleted.

Any suggestions you may have are greatly appreciated!

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-03-25T21:59:47+00:00

    Cliff,

    This is a big issue. Please review the comments below.

    My team is losing progress because the files we're working on together will not sync until you deal with the notification. EVERY TIME YOU DELETE A FILE. Because of our power query integrations, and the spottiness of them syncing, we lose progress if we are not syncing often. This deletion feature is a new "Feature", and it is NOT ready for production. Please remove it ASAP.

    Version 24.045.0303.0003

    Thomas

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-25T20:57:43+00:00

    We have this problem also.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-25T20:15:32+00:00

    We are experiencing the same issue!

    We have a department here that relies heavily on going through eFax documents that are delivered into Sharepoint. They spend most of their day going through these documents and then deleting them or moving them. However, over the last few days, they are receiving the notification the OP mentioned, which stops their OneDrive from syncing.

    This needs to be fixed ASAP.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-25T16:41:06+00:00

    This needs to be fixed ASAP. The whole office is affected!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-03-25T16:36:26+00:00

    My company has this same issue. This behavior only occurs when we sync a Teams/SharePoint library to your local computer via OneDrive. Our workflows are constantly interrupted in order to acknowledge we delete files.

    The point of OneDrive syncing is to make files easier/faster to work with. Teams and SharePoint have poor usability, preferring style over substance. Either Microsoft did this on purpose to dissuade people from using OneDrive or their usability team is so clueless/obnoxious that they overlooked this glaring usability flaw.

    What is absolutely unbelievable is that there is already a setting in OneDrive that gives a warning message if you try to delete many files at once, and even that can be toggled on/off. But now they add a brand new warning message to delete a single file, but it cannot be toggled on/off.

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