OneDrive shared folders showing up as URL links and not actual folders

I have the same problem. I need this to be fixed today. What is Microsoft doing?

You are 100% correct. I have noticed this as well. the two Onedrive platforms that look the same can share folders between each other and the direct access feature works, however when shared between the different ones then the folders appear as links.

Noticed this happening yesterday 2/19/2025 [Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems with 2025-02 Cumulative Update installed on ‎2/‎13/‎2025]

Regards,

John

A co-worker's PC here at the office was fine up until this afternoon. It now has the same problem where folders in "Personal" have changed to url's. 2/21/2025

Regards,

John

There's another thread regarding the same issue with at least 10 pages of posts from other users.

Regards,

John

sent off a report regarding the issue just now. I don't know what to do, I need the files locally so that the programs I use can work with them. They're useless on the browser. The folders are huge to download as a whole, and when I re-upload after I've done my daily work, I risk overwriting other teammembers' progress.

So I've been investigating this issue today, and it's affecting both myself and clients.
Here's what I've found:

1. The accounts that have been "broken" actually seem to be on a different platform of onedrive (best way I can describe it), maybe newer. You can tell by the share box which looks like this on "newer" platform:

As compared to the older style which looks like this on "older" platform: 2. It seems that two OneDrive accounts that appear to be on different "platforms" are experiencing broken sharing and you can tell if they have different share boxes.
3. Accounts where this sharing box matches each other, and therefore appear to be on the same "platform" can share folders without a problem. For instance, shares from my wife's account are showing up as links, and her account shows the "old" share box. However another account that was "broken" also has the same sharing box as I do, and I can infact share folders between the accounts properly.
4. Creating a new account only solves this issue for a bit, because it seems the newly created account is created on the "old" platform and not the new one, but is randomly migrated at some point which breaks it again from sharing with the older style of account.

If you are having this issue, please check the shared from and shared to accounts, click on the share button for a folder, and see if the share boxes are different between the accounts. I only have limited accounts to test this from, so maybe more people can see if they are seeing the same thing as I am.

Wow! This kind of solves my problem. So when i tried the methods you have mentioned. The older Share UI is for those who has Microsoft's domain email id, the one you mentioned as new is for those with other domain email ids. I created a new account with outlook and the shared folder works now. Can someone else confirm that whether the cross domain sharing causes this issue? (Microsoft domain: xxx@outlook/live.com, Other Domains: xyzx@gmail./com)