Folders Shared with me are syncing as internet shortcut in OneDrive on Windows PC

Found this buried this this crazy long thread. See THE CHECK section below for checking if your account has been migrated to the new system.

WHAT HAPPENED: Around May/June of 2024, MS started deploying a new version of the OneDrive servers. The old system is V1.0, and the new one is V2.0. They began slowly migrating people.

THE ISSUE: The sharing of folders and documents with local copies is incompatible between the two systems. Did MS know this? It's hard to tell, however, they never admitted that this was the problem, instead leaving people wondering why it's taken them 1 year to solve a problem that is critical to so many people. The number of reported cases increased as the migration to V2.0 progressed. In particular, for people, say, on a family account, there is no coordination between when family members migrate.

THE SOLUTION: There isn't one except to wait until everyone you share with or shares with you has been migrated. When everyone is migrated, those useless links should turn back into real files. Unfortunately, that means up to 300 million people's OneDrives downloading all those files again. The time to download all of that is probably not going to be short, as the bottleneck will be MS's own servers. Given this fiasco, you can either jump ship on Office + OneDrive and move to alternative Office and Cloud solutions, or wait this out. As this gets lost in the swamp of new messages, I thought I'd just repeat it with an addendum, because the proposed solutions are temporary bandaids, just lipstick on the gorilla. Some people are replying that even when everyone is one V2.0, problems still arise in synchronization. The best solution seems to be: Stop sharing the folder(s). Create new ones. Move all the content form the previously shared folder(s) top the new ones, and delete the old ones. Share the new ones.

THE CHECK: To know if you are on V1.0 or V2.0, use the web interface, click on the settings (cog wheel) in the top corner and select options. If the left-hand side navigation ends with "search", the account is still on V1.0, otherwise, it is on V2.0 There is a more complex solution using the inspection mode of your browser to check folders shared with you. (from Petr Vyskocil) Open OneDrive on the web, open browser's dev tools (F12 key), switch to network tab. Click on the folder belonging to user you want to investigate (yours or any of the shared folders). You'll see bunch of requests fire off. One of them will start either with https://api.onedrive.com/v1.0/drives/ (legacy OneDrive, this URL has been used since like forever) or https://my.microsoftpersonalcontent.com/_api/v2.0/drives (migrated new OneDrive).

OneDrive is connected to your office account. Uninstalling And reinstalling One Drive makes the problem worse are in the Microsoft Office updates you can get to from any of the office account pages and hit the button that says check for updates all updates need to be installed and all Windows updates need to be installed which means clicking the five check boxes that get you the current updates do keep in mind you cannot share a folder between personal 365 office and business 365 office it is no longer possible to do that all computers need to be on the same version of Office 365 with the same update version and whichever Windows you're on needs to be fully patched and clean the net stuff once this is done you can remove the permissions off the shared file then take it out of the one drive completely create a new folder with read write permissions From the online OneDrive The other computer when they see it The shared folder Only click it one time to download And then reboot the computer and it will show up And windows that Spore At this point you can move the contents of the folder Back into the new folder You can never move The roof holder back into OneDrive or it will stop working again And you don't have to repeat this procedure You do it right it works every time if you shortcut it it will not work I fixed thousands of these And being able to fix every one of them following these procedures With no issues I do recommend going to bleeping computers Downloading adware cleaner and scanning the computer first Both of them Because there is malware that can cause this issue also Is not of ours None of the antiviruses will pick it up Only malwarebytes are Hitman Pro alert will detect it and prevent it from getting on the computer

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Hi, everyone - I've already reported the problem in another thread, but I'll repeat myself here too. We have tried everything and of course it doesn't work. We are using a macOS system.

**** Microsoft hasn't lifted a finger in over six months. I report threads and they close it, claiming they are ‘WORKING ON THE PROBLEM’. What the ****.... Have been working for six months? Embarrassing company. Our company is planning a lawsuit against Microsoft.

Same issue here! Its been baffling me all morning! Has anyone found a work around yet? - Nicola