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
    2024-06-11T13:21:37+00:00

    Hello William and MS Team,

    We are facing the same issue and its severely affecting our work. Please notify us when the issue is updated. or a work around has been posted.

    Some information that may be of help for MS team to debug - The shared folder that is in question here was created and shared to us, by a US based user who has a different subscription account than us and in our team there US based and non-US based users (from a subscription account different than the folder creator). All the non-US based users are facing this issue, while the US based users do not seem to have this problem.

    Thanks

    Bibisha

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-06-11T13:26:52+00:00

    Hello

    I have the Same issue Sine 9th of June 2024. First all the original folders gave an error not allowing access.
    Reinstalled OneDrive app just in case there was an app problem after that , reshared the link to my users .

    Now All the shared folders turned into internet links and on clicking them windows explorer is redirecting to browser.

    Most disruptive

    Please help !

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-06-11T14:15:07+00:00

    We got the exact same issue.

    Shared folder are only weblinks since yesterday.

    Clicking them opens them in the webbrowser and not in the explorer like the past few years.

    It's very disruptive for our workflow.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-06-11T15:02:10+00:00

    I use one drive for work, I used to be able to access the file on my pc without it going onto the internet, now it has changed and it has a internet shortcut on it. How do I change this back?

    Hi I Have the same issue as mentioned by Abbie , but there seems to be no solution to this. Can you please assist. Below is the screenshot. Project Management folder used to be a File Folder type , but now its an Internet Shortcut.

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