OneDrive: Shared folders are only available via internet shortcut

Yeah this happened to me just today, 16th of october.

Which is funny because this "problem" started happening in june/july, I doubt they wouldn't have figured the cause by now.

Google Drive has no issue allowing local synchronization with explorer.. It also doesn't appear to be some type of cost-cutting measure, otherwise they would remove the onedrive desktop app entirely as it only makes sense due to Explorer integration.

We are looking to migrate to One Drive and just noticed this in our pilot testing.. is there no fix for this? We want our users to use local client, not the web client. What are my options? Avoid One Drive?

This has started to affect me on my MAC. It is extremely annoying and a challenge because it is a sharing environment from a group I am affiliated with, where the information is often time sensitive. It started one night overnight without any action of my part or the site administrators. Mia (or any Microsoft official), can you give an update, please?

It's the same here. Now we've also lost access to our data.

Our family's central data storage is an additional Microsoft account, which we were previously able to access with our laptops via shared folders. That's no longer possible.

It still worked until a few days ago. Then, unexpectedly, the message came that a lot of data had been deleted. I hadn't understood that. I suspect that the local copies on my laptop have been deleted because the shares I use no longer exist as folders.

No, copying files back and forth via the web browser is not an alternative or a workaround for us.

We have the exact same setup as a family, plus that I use cryptomator to only upload encrypted files to the cloud. So accessing the files via the browser is 100% impossible.

6 months of not responding to this critical issue is truly shameful for Microsoft and smells of monopolist behavior.