OneDrive: Shared folders are only available via internet shortcut

And it just gets better...

So, this morning I now turn on my PC to be greeted with OneDrive suddenly processing ~675,000 changes. Yes - that's ~675 thousand changes. At the current rate over a 1Mbps broadband circuit it looks like this is going to take somewhere in excess of 60 hours to complete. I'll say it again: SIXTY HOURS of continuous processing on my PC and broadband.

Curiously the URL link to the shared folders now appears to have disappeared altogether. But as yet, there is no new link showing as it used to.

Whether or not this is the resolution I have no idea, but I guess we'll find out in a few days after completing this utterly pointless exercise to re-synch all of my content that just 9 hours before was perfectly in synch. My guess is that my data has been migrated to whatever new platform is designated for OneDrive, and so the whole lot has to be re-confirmed.

In fairness, the load on my PC is not so bad that I can't do anything on it. But I'm loathe to start messing with any OneDrive content as I have no idea what is happening and whether making changes will make the situation worse.

If I was working for Microsoft, I might start thinking about preparing an insanity plea...

I've just seen the Microsoft 50th anniversary timeline presentation. They missed a really important important milestone:

"2024 - developed innovative, imaginative, and downright idiotic ways of completely screwing our customers and the work they do".

Same for me, we are paying for a family plan and we need to work. Please somebody in Microsoft rise the voice to tell us how will you compensate us! Is incredible that we are still waiting after 1 year.

This just happened to me. I share a folder with my wife and the contents were synched locally on her machine. They just disappeared and the folder turned into a link and now there is no option to synch the folder, only create shortcut. This thread is nine months old and there's still no fix? **** Microsoft?!

Nine months and counting. That's quite good for the most recent incarnation of Microsoft, where I would consider 9 years as a more realistic expectation. I'm of the opinion that the reason it hasn't been resolved is everybody in Microsoft is currently working on how best to screw up their customers in some other imaginative and equally stupid way. As a business strategy it's about the most moronic approach I can imagine.

I've defended Microsoft more times than I care to think, but I'm really at the point of saying that this is yet another example of utter incompetence. You also screwed up OneDrive (different problem) about the same time last year - it took me about 2-3 weeks of effort to work out what was going on and develop a solution to replace it. As far as I'm aware you still haven't resolved that problem either. I honestly can't think of another company who is so successful at being so utterly bad in servicing their paying customers... at least, none that are still in business.

Once again this is going to cause me huge problems, but my expectations of Microsoft are now so low that I'm fairly certain not one person working there is even remotely bothered about any of this stuff. In fact, I'm not even convinced that Microsoft considers this to be a problem, other than in the lip service such as above. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody was now working on explaining why this is a substantial, strategic improvement to OneDrive and not own up to any problem whatsoever. Other than we the victims, the only other people I feel sorry for are those in the front line like Sayantan D who have to keep spewing this BS to their customers to make it look like Microsoft actually gives a f***.

My PC needs to be replaced soon. I never thought I would say this, but looks like it's time to switch to the Apple world and get out of the Microsoft space altogether. We all have a point of no return, this is now quite probably mine.