OneDrive: In windows 11, file explorer no longer allows you access to shared folders within "my files" or QuickAccess except as a link to the online version of the folder

Anonymous
2024-06-09T18:14:40+00:00

These issues are specifically for accessing files/folders within File Explorer.

Noted today that for shared folders that were previously added (and readded today) to My Files do not allow access to the contents of the folder but instead they appear as a link to the webpage portal for access to the folder.

Initial access to the web portal version did not seem to work until after logging out and back in again (I think this is referenced in a published workaround).

Further, the same shared folder cannot be accessed via the link in Quick Access. It provides a "location is not found" error instead.

Not sure if there's a fix to this pending?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-02-28T14:37:24+00:00

    Just got off the phone with Microsoft.

    They have discontinued the ability to do file sharing through file explorer.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-28T13:35:04+00:00

    It just does not get any better than this.

    Chat GPT is answering for Microsoft.

    Where the hell is Microsoft?

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-28T13:23:55+00:00

    I just lost my access to a shared OneDrive folder two days ago. FWIW, ChatGPT tells me that this is a new Microsoft policy that's been in place since 2023, but it's just now getting around to me. My wife still sees the folder in Explorer, but the folder name changed. I suspect she'll get whacked soon.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-28T12:19:41+00:00

    If you don't get it by now, Microsoft could care less that you are not getting a service that you pay for.

    All of the traffic about this issue: have they chimed in? NO!

    I know for a fact that they monitor this website.

    The Big Middle Finger to all of us...........................

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-02-28T08:42:26+00:00

    I'm here to say that this is now happening in Windows 10 also, I'm guessing because of a recent update. All of the folders I've shared with my wife have disappeared from her Windows Explorer OneDrive folder, but she can still see them in the shared area in the website based OneDrive.

    I've heard that MS was forcing some Win11 functions into Win10 with one or more of the most recent updates, I guess this bug is one of the gifts that comes with all of that.

    It sure would be great if MS would sort out the issues in their new OS instead of forcing them into the previous OS where (mostly) everything still works the way folks need it to.

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