OneDrive: Shared folders are only available via internet shortcut

Anonymous
2024-06-14T10:21:46+00:00

I am having problems with shared folders in OneDrive. They are showing up as internet shortcuts only, I used to have them in File Explorer as a folder that I would click on to access content of that shared folder. My IT person found a website stating that Microsoft is aware of this issue. When will this be fixed?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-03-17T10:01:43+00:00

    A couple of comments to add on this:

    1 - despite Microsoft's claims that they don't support when one user has been migrated and the other user hasn't, both my iOS and Android devices continue to work with links to shared folders without any problems whatsoever. So they can support it - I'm starting to wonder if this is deliberate in order to force people to use internet rather than local URLs.

    2 - I suspect Microsoft's plan for the 'solution' for this problem is simply to wait until the second user has also migrated, at which point everything will start to work again. Given that they've supposedly been doing this migration for over a year now (which in itself beggars belief), it's probably not a good idea to hold your breath while waiting for this to happen...

    Lots of words come to mind - lunacy, idiocy, insanity, incompetence, etc.

    ^^ totally agree

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-14T09:36:09+00:00

    The development team also gets money for the mess they have caused.

    ?(/)/(?%&"§%§$&§$

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-14T07:31:09+00:00

    That's the same answer they are giving for months...

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-14T07:28:05+00:00

    https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-has-update-on-onedrive-shared-folders-turning-to-internet-shortcut-links/

    My issue here is no timeline to resolution, a way to check when accounts will be "migrated" or anything of sorts...

    The other thing of course is this being 10 months old of an issue means... they never even cared anyways... it just happened my accounts are affected now and some where 10 months ago while others 3-4-5-6 etc...

    The replies from MS "support" are also not helping just pointing to a page that says "this is a known issue - hang in there"...

    Unacceptable.-

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-03-14T01:01:40+00:00

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