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

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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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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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Anonymous

2025-01-28T13:40:19+00:00

Well indeed, the shortcut to the share folder is not a folder, it's an LNK file and it's hust a pointer to the actual website. Searching local folders containing the link will of course yield no result in the shared folders. You have to do the search in the web interface. It's just one of the many disadvantages of the situation.
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Anonymous

2025-01-28T12:39:58+00:00

It is the end of January and still no solution! I pay Premium and also have Microsoft 365 Business, this is unacceptable!
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Anonymous

2025-01-28T10:21:54+00:00

I know that this thread is related with no local sync, etc.

But my point is:

When you are affected by the link bug, you are also affected by the searchbar bug, which means that you cannot search online in shared folders which are marked on you desktop version as link.

So if you have a shared folder which looks like link, please try to find something in that directory using Online/Web version of Onedrive.

You won't be able to find anything. So the workaround which Microsoft is pushing to use oneline version does not make sense because you cannot search in shared folders.
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Anonymous

2025-01-28T07:50:05+00:00
When you open the shared folder(s) in the browser, you can type your search terms in the search bar at the top ('search everything'). The search is very fast and it searches inside files too, incl. PDF files.

The problems caused by the bug this thread is about are mainly:
- No local sync, so no possibility to work on shared files offline
- Complex file manipulations, e.g. copy or move files between folders.
- Need to download files other than MS Office files to edit them, then re-upload, which is cumbersome + you lose all the benefit of file sharing.
Like many respondents to this thread, I'm slowly losing faith in Microsoft solutions and ability to deliver. If it weren't for the Office licenses associated to this, I would already have switched to another product, like Google Drive or Dropbox.
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