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

Quick update to my post above: I can now upload files to shared folders again in the OneDrive for Android app.

Also, on my wife's Windows 10 tablet her shared folders are again accessible as locally synced folders, so it looks like her account and the account sharing the folders are now on the same platform. I'm still waiting for my shared folders to revert from links back to synced folders. Hope to see that happen soon, now that the Android app is already working again.

I did an inplace upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 - but it hasn't fixed it.

And yet when I share the same folder to a friend on Windows 10, they see it as a folder, not a short cut.

I don't know why it works correctly on some Windows 10/11 PCs, but not others.

I really would like to know how to roll back to before whatever broke this.

Come-on Microsoft!! What's the fix?

Since 2 days I have the exact same issue. Everything was working fine, I could access the shared folder within the Windows 11 File Explorer, and I was using it for my (photography) work on a daily basis. But 2 days ago something change, since then I can't access that shared folder anymore, no matter, if I add the shortcut to My files again, it remains a real shortcut, what opens the shared folder only in a browser. I tried all the suggestions I found, but none of them work for me. It's a shame, that this issue is present since 1 year (at least), and it's not yet fixed.

I have 2 different shared folders from different accounts, and one of them is still working as expected, but the other one became a .url link instead of an actual folder, I can see all the differences in the properties in File Explorer. In the browser version of Outlook there are no differences, so I guess it depends from which account the folder is shared.

Microsoft, please fix this issue, it makes my work way harder and much longer...

Thank you.

As of this morning (Sat 5/04/2025) my shared OneDrive folders are accessible again in Windows Explorer on my Windows 11 laptop. The folders appear slightly different, with a blue chain link icon in the lower left corner, and moving files from my personal OneDrive to one of the shared folders is considerably slower than it was in the past (takes about 15 to 30 seconds now), but at least it's working again like it used to.

Files in shared folders that had previously been opened and cached locally are gone, though, and all shared folders are online only again, with files being downloaded as needed when I access them.

Looks like for me the wait is over, and I'm back to the way it was. Hope it will straighten itself out for all of you as well ... eventually. Why this migration (or whatever it actually was behind the scenes) wasn't communicated to us remains a mystery, though.

Still have the same problem !