A shared folder in one drive, cannot be synced to explorer. Option no longer available

adding on to this thread...

desktop will not show the added shared folder. This folder was originally in the list of Choose folders to sync with desktop, but after some minutes, this folder disappeared and no longer shows up in the list to check/uncheck.

OneDrive online does show the shared folder in my list of folders, however attempts to move files into this shared folder with Write access fails. I am able to create the "tets" folder in this shared folder which shows i have Write access, but the Move here button is greyed out.

Having the same issue here. Come one Micro$oft, do something about it!

Hi there,

Same issue here since 2025-07-06. Premium users shares are still syncing, so the problem seems not to be purely technical, but might even be a licensing "feature"(!).

Microsofts resources are moved towards GenAI and bread-and-butter features are starving. Unfortunately, this will be the future of IT.

This is complete garbage, Microsoft.

I have a paid OneDrive service through a Microsoft 365 Family subscription. We're supposed to get 1TB each for 5 people and I had shared folders set up between two of my Microsoft accounts (two laptops) and my wife's account (her laptop). We had shared folders that we could transfer photos and such between us, just by looking in the shared folders in File Explorer and cut/pasting files that would sync between the machines. Then, like many, I noticed today that a few weeks ago (?) it suddenly converted these shared sync folders with files to web links that just open the OneDrive web view to access the shared folders and files remotely (and VERY inconveniently).

While that was SUPER ANNOYING and not what I paid for, whatever change they made also DELETED the previously syncronised shared files and folders on my C drive in the OneDrive file tree under c:\users[username]\OneDrive path, replacing the folders with web link shortcuts. This is Microsoft DELETING data on MY local disk WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. Absolutely outragious.

I don't care what Microsoft says about whether it wants to continue to provide folder sync services as part of the service I PAID for, deleting MY data without MY PERMISSION on MY disk has to be illegal.

Not just new accounts. My family has been using OneDrive to sync across computers for many years. It stopped working in Feb 2025. II have tried many things to fix it over several weeks without success.