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
    2025-02-18T14:34:04+00:00

    Today is 2/18/25 and this issue has just appeared suddenly on my windows 10 machine. I've spent the past 1.5 hours trying to figure out what in the world happened. Seriously? My family uses shared onedrive folders to manage bills, receipts, photos, music...all of our home files, all AVAILABLE via file explorer....until today.

    FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!!!

    Microsoft keeps breaking things that work. I am done. Moving all of my family stuff - financial, photos, music.... to Google Drive.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-21T22:13:11+00:00

    I did not have this problem back in 2024, but I'm facing it since today. Please fix asap

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-21T23:38:34+00:00

    Same as everyone here.
    A few days ago, our shared OneDrive folders we use for our business disappeared from each other's file explorer. They are showing up in web version, but that doesn't allow us to open, edit, and save like we have always done.

    This is a critical problem!!! Microsoft, please fix it right away!!!! Or we have no choice but switch to a different service.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-22T00:16:05+00:00

    You're very lucky that it just started to happen you. It's been going on for a year and a half with me. They've been telling me for that long the engineering team is working to fix it. Can you believe Microsoft can't fix there own stuff. However, they keep advertising 365 as a wonderful product.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-02-22T15:11:00+00:00

    This is still an issue as this just happened to me today. I can no longer save a word doc to a shared onedrive folder.

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