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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?
A Microsoft file hosting and synchronization service.
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The only solution is to wait until Microsoft finishes with you. After they're done, your shared OneDrive should just come back on its own.
Facing the same issue of my shared folders not accessible on my windows explorer. Any solutions to resolve this will be much appreciated!
Thank you
Just remember Google just decided on a whim that they would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. You should see me trying to explain that to my grandchildren. Tell them the globe i bought them is right.
While your frustration is understandable, Google has a long history of dropping products, sabotaging interoperability with other vendors' products, and abandoning users whenever it suits them. Hope you didn't jump from the frying pan into the fire, but there's a good chance you did.
Since my...uh... let's go with "slightly perturbed"...rant of 2/18/25, I still get emails for responses to this thread. I mostly ignore them now since, as promised, we moved all of our home files, photos, etc. to GDrive, and paid them $100 for 2 TB of storage.
For now, I'm still paying Microsoft for Office 365 and our individual OneDrive accounts, but I'm done with this BS. When I get the time I'm migrating everything over. MS is screwing up Windows and office apps more and more. They seem to have NO IDEA how their customers use their products. MS forced a change to my Outlook interface IN THE MIDDLE OF MY WORK DAY. Took about an hour to set things back to my preferred interface.
Anyway, no issues at all for GDrive folder sharing. Works like a champ, and seems faster than OneDrive. Like a previous poster, my wife and I use shared folders for financial stuff, and we were in the middle of doing taxes when this all went down. This made it hard to do our annual tax-time clean up of receipts, tax forms, donation records, our small home business expenses and paperwork, etc. etc.
Practically speaking, MS breaking OneDrive probably delayed filing our taxes for 6+ weeks, because we first had to move our shared folders over to GDrive so we could access them in real time via FileExplorer, before actually working on the taxes together. Then of course life, work, kids, etc. got in the way. So we scheduled a "lets get our taxes done" weekend, but then OneDrive broke and it turned into 2 months of work, delay, and confusion.
So yeah - great job Microsoft! Way to screw up a product I've been relying on for almost 10 years (back when they called it "SkyDrive"). You have certainly informed my future buying decisions as a consumer, a full-time company executive, and the partner of a small home business.