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

2024-07-03T13:22:08+00:00

PLEASE provide a timeline for the fix....Thanks!
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2024-07-03T13:26:18+00:00

This isn't going to get fixed anytime soon - this problem has happened before and 'quietly went away', whether the affected users stopped using OneDrive or not there is no 'solution' to this

Even if they fixed it today - would you trust them with your data again - ever?

If the answer to that isn't "No" I don't know what it is.

I hate to recommend other Cloud sync services because they're all flawed but they exist and OneDrive has to now be considered malware as it can and will eventually result in loss of work/data
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2024-07-03T13:53:26+00:00

This isn't going to get fixed anytime soon - this problem has happened before and 'quietly went away', whether the affected users stopped using OneDrive or not there is no 'solution' to this

Even if they fixed it today - would you trust them with your data again - ever?

If the answer to that isn't "No" I don't know what it is.

I hate to recommend other Cloud sync services because they're all flawed but they exist and OneDrive has to now be considered malware as it can and will eventually result in loss of work/data

I'm on the team for a short time, and I've been using Excel, VBA and One Drive, as my boss asked me to. Now that everything works smoothly, even with extensive testing with the 2 One Drive accounts the company gave me for development, it just bugs on the computers/accounts of the people supposed to use my files. Wonderful.
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Anonymous

2024-07-03T17:30:45+00:00

I have not seen this mentioned here, but for me this problem coincided with OneDrive terminating with error code 0x8004def4 when launching it - this happens on multiple PCs that are all parts of the same Microsoft 365 Family subscription.

FWIW, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling OneDrive on one PC, but it does not even start to sync after that.

Checking the (obfuscated) ODL logs with https://github.com/ydkhatri/OneDrive did not yield anything interesting at first glance.
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