Folders Shared with me are syncing as internet shortcut in OneDrive on Windows PC

Anonymous
2024-06-08T04:53:55+00:00

Hi. I had some folders shared from different users in my OneDrive account. I had added the folders to my OneDrive with Add Shortcut to OneDrive button from Shared folders in cloud. The account is logged into a windows pc and every files including the folders shared with my were syncing fine until yesterday. Yesterday night the shared folders were completely removed from the Windows pc and folders are replaced with internet shortcut. This is such a big mess. I have tried unlinking the account and linking it back, changing the location of OneDrive on my windows pc and tried to get a new folder shared to my account and adding it to OneDrive. Nothing works so far. OneDrive has a big part in my daily activities. Please help me resolve this.

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Anonymous
2025-03-13T06:07:22+00:00

Here is the statement from the Microsoft OneDrive product group (Redmond USA) about the OneDrive Personal problem:

***This is related to a backend migration we are doing and unfortunately, we don’t fully support syncing shared folders in the case where one user has migrated and the other has not. We’re doing everything possible to accelerate things so that it can be resolved as soon as possible for users of the feature. When the accounts are migrated, there is automated logic that makes them go back to a syncing folder within several days.***I have heard, that shared Folder issue is gone.
The best thing is: WAIT and do nothing

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-05-07T06:26:26+00:00

    Posted somewhere far above on 8th April by MW... Number 1 is what I have been using on the web OneDrive page.

    There are three ways to check if an account has been migrated to V2

    1. Options has no search
    2. Selecting an image in a folder no longer has an option to set it as the folder's cover
    3. Open developer tools

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-05-07T06:08:19+00:00

    Woke up to a OneDrive warning message on my phone that lots of files were deleted over night. Thought this might be Microsoft's way of telling me that I finally am being moved to join the rest of my family who are under my account and were moved months ago. Indeed the settings menu has changed, no longer ends in search. That is a sign of something having been changed in the background, like an extra black cat in the matrix. And a lot of synchronizing is going. Wonder how long it will take to have a few hundred gig be in the same place.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-05-06T16:23:53+00:00

    After 2 months of nerve wrecking terror my onedrive problems finally seem fixed. Having a total of around 400GB of data and 180.000 (mostly really small) files with of good amount of shared folders my own account would not migrate to v2 while all other accounts of users that i share file with were already v2.

    I have an old friend who works for MS who was able to use his internal contacts and give me the information that my migration was in progress. After i got this information it took 10 (!!!) days until my onedrive was finally migrated to v2 and all my 180.000 files started synching. It took nearly 3 days until all data was accessible again. But after that the sync process simply would not stop. It always stated that changes were processed while nothing happened. The ressource monitor showed minimal activity on some local database files.

    After 5 days i finally decided to reset (will not erase any data!!!) the sync as described here:

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/reset-onedrive-34701e00-bf7b-42db-b960-84905399050c

    Please note that the path for the ondrive.exe seems to have changed. In my case it can found here: C:\users[usersame]\appdata\local\Microsoft\Onedrive

    After this i received some error message but after a reboot and a really quick search for changes everything is back to normal...

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-05-05T21:30:13+00:00

    I have several team members that started to have this problem about 2 months ago. These posts on the problem go back over 1 year!! It's ridiculous that MS hasn't resolved this faster.

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