Onedrive shared folders shorcuts is showing as .url on the onedrive folder

Anonymous
2024-06-18T18:07:16+00:00

I am Sharing a folder in personal One Drive with another personal onedrive account. When the other part recieve the link and want to add the shortcut to his account, it creates a .url direct to internet link on the onedrive folder that opens the folder online, i need to open it as a folder file in the onedrive folder localy. How can i fix this?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-04-20T03:51:22+00:00

    This has been going on for weeks! No matter what I do this doesn't get fixed, I have installed and uninstalled OneDrive many times now. Come on Microsoft!

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-13T05:25:10+00:00

    DROPBOX is the solution...after being without data for a month and seeing only a .url link to onedrive, I migrate my data to dropbox which is reliable

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-26T20:13:26+00:00

    I share a OneDrive folder with a friend for our projects, and we have set it up so that files are downloaded to both of our PCs. This ensures that our audio software can directly link to those files without any issues. However, this problem has completely disrupted our workflow. We can no longer add the shared folder to our PCs because it has been replaced by a URL instead of being locally available.

    If this issue persists, we will have no choice but to switch back to Google Drive, as OneDrive is no longer meeting our needs. How is it possible that this problem is taking so long to resolve?

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-05T12:47:32+00:00

    Any news? Another my shared folder become .url internet shortcuts instead of actual folders.

    Just use RaiDrive, it has option to show only shared content and stays as a drive. I gave up on microsoft....

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