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
    2025-03-28T00:40:06+00:00

    I just experienced this whole "web link" mess yesterday for the first time. It appears from this thread that this has been a known issue for Microsoft and OneDrive since June of last year and there is still no fix?????? What leads anyone in this thread to believe that Microsoft is anywhere near fixing this issue if they can't fix it in 9 months???? Should I be looking to migrate to a different Cloud File Sharing system?

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-28T01:00:29+00:00

    I won't bother with this anymore.

    This is prime enshifitication.

    The entire world is being enshitified.

    They took market share, now they own it.

    They can do whatever they want and we have nowhere to run but ourselves.

    They know their product is getting worse and it is VERY intentional.

    They profit, we lose.

    Same with governments. We lost.

    I will have to leave the conversation because I am tired of getting emails with messages from people who came here and didn't bother to read at least enough to see their problem is also faced by many others and prefer to tell their entire life story instead of just saying "me too" shortly.

    Microsoft wants profit. Not happy customers.

    Governments want to control us, not to serve us.

    We're doomed. We lost.

    We're going down since late 80's. They figured out they could profit more by letting "real users" (the ones who actually use what they pay for) without service.

    They also labelled us as "Karens".

    At least, in the past, we could ask to speak to a "manager". Now, the most we get is a call center in India that hires people at semi slave jobs and are there to face conflict without enough power to do anything to help, because they're not hired to help but to "delay, deny and defend" their employer.

    I know uncle Bill loves his money but I don't think even he would agree with these policies.

    It's not acceptable that a topic like this doesn't get a top tier person from Microsoft apologizing to us, personally, taking responsibility and fixing this situation.

    What they're doing to us is worse than showing a middle finger.

    Goodbye (soon, I will still subscribe for the topic for another 24 hours but I'll be done with it afterwards, sorry).

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-28T08:04:17+00:00

    We have made ourselves dependent on OneDrive and unfortunately it is not easy to change to a different service. In retrospect, that was a mistake. But should we really invest the time to change now?

    I was really shocked when I heard of Rümeysa Öztürk who was imprisoned for writing a critical article in a student magazine. Maybe in future, it will be sufficient to write something critical in public cloud. But at least and right now, spending money for a subscription finances US government. What a nightmare.

    https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/video/video-1449558.html

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-28T08:47:55+00:00

    All my folders are shared between 5 accounts. All 5 of our accounts are now broken and shared folders are links.

    There are no other accounts. Why are our onedrives still broken. Clearly this means that all the accounts have migrated.
    First mine broke, then my fathers, then my mothers, then my SILs (who is the owner of the folders), and then my brothers. Out of all of us, the only account which could potentially not have migrated yet, is my brother since his broke after my SILs. But even then, I feel like at least mine and my parents and my SILs should have been fixed. Since the initial assessment was that the owner and the sharee are on different backends.

    I am so confused.

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