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

I take it back. More syncing is happening. Based on previous timings, this will take another day or so. God only knows what else Microsoft is destroying right now.

I am in absolute terror

So, an update.

It took one of my machines four days to re-sync to one drive.

On the plus side, I now have access to my shared files through file explorer again.

On the minus side, work I had done on another machine in the intervening period has been DESTROYED and CANNOT BE RETRIEVED.

So after waiting months for a fix, the problem appears to have been resolved at the cost of only a few days of my life.

I am literally in tears.

I will never trust Microsoft again.

Essa falha já ocorre desde 2023 com usuários de assinatura Family de forma intermitente e a Microsoft nunca sequer pensou em corrigir isso, e acho que nem vai! ultimamente a assinatura Family vem tendo diversos problemas e a Microsoft não faz nada, e o motivo é simples:

A Microsoft sabe que a maioria que usa essa licença são pequenos escritórios que não querem gastar com licenças empresariais. Então o pequeno empresário ao invés de gastar um valor alto com licenças Business pra ter Sharepoint, simplesmente compra uma licença Family, e então distribui para até 5 funcionários. Na maioria desses casos o gestor da licença cria uma pasta raiz no seu OneDrive e então compartilha com os colaboradores para terem acesso compartilhado. E é isso que a Microsoft não quer, por isso agora ao invés de conseguir acessar local pelo Explorer do Windows como era antes, aparece apenas um atalho com link pra acessar pelo navegador direto no OneDrive Web, algo que ninguém gosta e é totalmente improdutivo. Somente o dono da pasta consegue manipular ela pelo Explorer, qualquer um que seja compartilhado com ela só consegue acessar via Web.

Tenho 7 empresas pequenas que administro a T.I, e todas usavam a licença Family. Assim que vi que esse problema passou de 3 meses e nada de ser corrigido já migrei todos para o Google Drive. No Google Drive podemos mapear unidades igual se faz com servidores de dados físicos, e funciona perfeitamente a sincronização em máquinas.

Novamente, essa falha está indo pra 3 anos e a Microsoft ainda não corrigiu. Não se iludam, pois possivelmente nem irão corrigir e as falham só vão continuar aumentando até forçar todos a irem pra Business.

Well for me its just got a lot worse.

I access the same one drive from a number of devices - which I thought was the whole purpose of it.

After deleting all the local copies of the files that had been shared with me without the knowledge or consent of either me - or the sharer. (ie, files that were actually on my local hard drive were deleted and I only found out afterwards)...

One drive then proceeded to create multiple copies of the folder structure designated for individual devices, across all of my devices (filling my one drive with a large volume of effectively garbage.

Now I appear to be locked in to a complete rebuild of the file structure of about 120,000 files. This device had processed about 40,000 since so I was optimistic that it might be finished before the end of the week.

This morning, a file that I was working on reverted back to an earlier version without any warning costing me a couple of hours of work.

And now one drive appears to have crashed completely. I cannot access it at all on this device - not local files, not files on the cloud. It has failed completely.

I pay Microsoft close to £500 a year for this. But I'm now realising that is only a fraction of the true cost.

I'm trying to rescue my files from one drive onto local storage. But even that proves to be painful. Shared files can effectively only be downloaded one at a time. If you select more than one, you get a zip file. Sometimes this fails and you get nothing. Other times, you get only part of the selected files (with no warning).

I am so screwed and so tired. Really hoping I can get all my files back and quit one drive completely ASAP