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

This is genius! I do have that issue, indeed.

Does this happen because one account is the "main" one, paying for it, and the others are guests? When you say half and half, do you have more than one account with "Search" instead of "Restore your OneDrive" at the bottom? I only see my main one with it.

I tried using a "family" group and to reshare folders but it did not work, the shares happen via link instead of other "family members" showing up.

What's even weirder is that after all this removing and readding the folders are showing on the "what to synchronize" but OneDrive is still performing the basic synchronization of the owned folders, didn't get to process the others. The fact I see no url link yet might mean perhaps all this removing and readding might work?

We should surely have an unlinked backup of all files somewhere, it was very un nice of MS to remove our local files without asking first.

Good opportunity to shake us up and remind us to have more layers of backup, anyways. We sometimes take things for granted.

They have very expensive upgrades with 5 and 10 TB that didn't exist before. I wonder if all this mess is happening as an indirect way to force people to upgrade to their 50 dollar per month 5TB for a single account subscription.

Nice it's now possible but the price is too high for personal use.

I'll shop around but I personally might change the way I organize my files. Not sure how to use more than one OneDrive account at the same time on the same computer. I have a feeling it's possible since I saw an "add account" option that didn't exist before on their Windows App. Did anybody ever use that? Does it work well?

That also does not solve the issue when family members or friends share folders with us. We'll be unable to synchronize and work on them properly like before, if they are on the "wrong server".

I would guess that they are rolling out an update and are midway and we will just have to wait until they finish. Another interesting fact in my case is that when the problem happened, the computers that had the "search" version are physically located in the USA while the ones with the other version are physically located in Europe. We travel a lot. Furthermore, the MS accounts for those in Europe might have a European MS account, where the others are US. So, could be some geographic aspect to the rollout? Just guessing!

Thanks, I have tried it, but didnt work :( Now 2 of my colleagues have the same problem since yesterday.

For the one who had this problem since last week, we created a new MS account and everything worked again, but only for 2 days. Today another folder became a link, the one for last week is fine... for now...

This is not acceptable, we are planning on moving to google drive and close all MSoffice subscriptions as well because of this.

This is genius! I do have that issue, indeed.

Does this happen because one account is the "main" one, paying for it, and the others are guests? When you say half and half, do you have more than one account with "Search" instead of "Restore your OneDrive" at the bottom? I only see my main one with it.

My "main" account it on the "Search" version. One family member account is also on "Search" but the others are on the older "Restore you OneDrive" version. The kicker for me is the files I need are shared from one on the older version and tried signing up that old version account for it's own paid OneDrive use to see if that would force an update, and no joy.

We are all located in the United States.