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
    2025-02-27T11:35:12+00:00

    Started experiencing the same thing yesterday: the 600+GB shared family photo folder became "Pictures and Videos (3seb-PC)" and a "Pictures and Videos" link appeared alongside. That puts me at 1.3TB of 1TB - I guess that is how you sell new subscriptions? It also started uploading those 600+GB, which is pointless.
    Also renaming one folder in another share with friends just duplicated it (the old folder remained and I started uploading the renamed folder with its 17GB of files).

    It's just a mess right now.

    (edit: I can also confirm both accounts are on "_2025-02-14.014", so the JS version being different is out.)

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-27T10:52:23+00:00

    Hi, no need to use different PC's, just go to https://onedrive.live.com/ on any browser, mouse right click on a blank space, choose "View page source" and search (CTRL+F) for "https://res-1.cdn.office.net/files/odsp-web-prod" without quotes.

    You should find at least two entries with the same versions.

    If you've done this, both accounts are on the same version and folder sharing is not working i'm out of ideas... Have you tried reverse sharing?

    I tested several accounts and from my testing sharing it not working when the account that shares uses an older version that of the destination account.

    The important thing to note here is that the version of the javascript files being called does NOT help to identify whether the account is "old" or "new" style.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-27T10:43:20+00:00

    Hi, no need to use different PC's, just go to https://onedrive.live.com/ on any browser, mouse right click on a blank space, choose "View page source" and search (CTRL+F) for "https://res-1.cdn.office.net/files/odsp-web-prod" without quotes.

    You should find at least two entries with the same versions.

    If you've done this, both accounts are on the same version and folder sharing is not working i'm out of ideas... Have you tried reverse sharing?

    I tested several accounts and from my testing sharing it not working when the account that shares uses an older version that of the destination account.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-27T10:37:54+00:00

    This is nuts, especially after the recent price hike. Well, done Microsoft time to look for another cloud service.

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