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
    2025-04-02T06:01:09+00:00

    in my case we havent used the whole TB but only around 30 GBs, so we copied everything to an external drive and deleted everything from the clopud just to make sure we dont get a copy of the copy or something like that, then we move the only files to the documents on the pc sharing , we shared and it worked

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-02T06:02:04+00:00

    Worked for me. But I had to also delete the url style links from Win Explorer locally. But as I read in another post it took 2 days to propagate. Then at that point all the shared files reloaded in the respective folders. Going strong for a week now. Other than that I did not do any revision updates or down grades, just waited patiently with lots of frustrations. Glad mine is working!

    Regarding the following:

    Today it finally worked for me.

    But not "automatically" as some reported...

    I needed to go to the browser one drive,

    1. remove the "buggy" shared folder url from "my files"
    2. go to "shared", click the shared folder, click the "add link to my files" -> this was not sucessfully at first, but after some reloads of the page it was sucessfully (maybe just give it a couple of seconds to remove the linked folder first properly)

    .. then on the browser it seems that nothing has changed, but on the explorer the url folder was replaced back to a "normal" folder... yay!

    Good luck to all of you out there!

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-04-02T10:56:58+00:00

    Microsoft employs lazy, clumsy people. They've been doing nothing for a year.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-04-02T11:27:09+00:00

    I tried this method and found when I then went to the Shared section of OneDrive online and tried to add the shortcut, I received the error "1 shortcut wasn't shared". I have not been able to verify the account I'm trying to sync to is V1 or V2 but I'm V2. Looking for this issue online, sure enough, it pointed to another OneDrive MS Community post about the June 2024 url shortcut issue, but it included a workaround. Here is a link to that post. The workaround is to use the url to Add a Network Location in File Explorer. This worked for me and my use case. True, the location I have access to is not being shared within my OneDrive folder, but I can live with that for the moment.

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