we have fix to onedrive shortcut on file explorer

onedrive team is working on since long.!!

better to switch to other cloud storage website.

so far, here's what I'm seeing:

• shared folders between accounts at the same version (1.0 -> 1.0 or 2.0 -> 2.0): works fine (#1 of your options)
• your # 2 (2.0 -> 1.0) is NOT working, tested with several accounts and combinations
• your #3 is the same case my first option above (different versions is not working).

it works for me logging with the account that was shared with (mine) but at the third try

This is a workaround, not a fix. Since the "Map to drive" functionality will break any links, it isn't a very good one.

Microsoft just has to get its sheet together on this one.

We know the problem is that they are migrating accounts from one backend to another.

The problem occurs when the account SHARING a folder is on the new backend and the account RECEIVING shared folder is on the old backend.

They have said "we're trying to accelerate the migrations so that they are done faster and no one has this "differing backend" problem.

Everyone who HAS the problem should:

• tell Microsoft "Look, we know we have the problem, so here is my MSA, so you can queue it to be done FIRST in the queue"
• Use Microsoft support on X or any other DIRECT method you have of telling them this.
• Don't bother with anything really technical here as Microsoft isn't listening and there is a 90% chance you'll get bogus info.

If we do that, and Microsoft takes our advice as IMPORTANT customers, everyone who has the problem will get it fixed, and everyone else can still wait as long as it takes to migrate the backends.

Really, Microsoft, though... you're seriously telling us that it takes from AT LEAST June of 2024 until now to get all the accounts migrated? Seems unlikely.

If you want another, maybe more staightforward workaround, just click on the shared URL. file. That will take you to the OneDrive site. From there, find the file you want to open, and click the three dots ... After that, click on "Open" and then "Open in App".

I tried this, and based on some very limited testing it seems to work!

Here's a bit more info on what I did (Windows 11, 24H2):

• As Krupička Lukáš described above, open a Microsoft app like Word or Excel, click on "open" and view the list of files recently opened. Find a file that is in the shared OneDrive folder you want to access. Right-click on the file and click on "Copy path to clipboard"
• Open Windows Explorer (from the Start menu you can search for "File Explorer"), and navigate to your computer name. It should display you devices and drives, and any network locations you may have.
• Click on "..." on the taskbar, and select "Map Network Drive"
• In the "What network folder would you like to map?" window that comes up, click on "Connect to a Web site that you can use to store your documents and pictures." This will open a wizard that will help you create a shortcut to OneDrive. Click Next.
• Click on "Choose a custom network location" and click Next.
• In the "Specify the location of your website", paste (cntrl-v) the path that you copied in the first step above. (Mine started with https://d.docs.live.net/...)  You may have to trim items off the end of the path if you want the link to go to a higher level in the directory structure than the path you copied. Click Next. It may ask you to enter the credentials of the OneDrive account the folder was shared with, and it will ask you to provide a name for the shortcut.
• When finished this should create a Network Location shortcut that you can see in Explorer under your computer. You can use it from Explorer or from within applications to browse to locate files.

Compared to the way OneDrive used to work with shared folders, it's pretty sluggish. I assume this is because the folder isn't mirrored locally and synched back to the server. This probably also means it will be more fragile in terms on network connection issues, etc. But for me, at least this gives me a somewhat clumsy way to get running again.

Thanks to Krupička Lukáš for the idea!

Jason

One of the employees for our office was experiencing the internet shortcut issue and your solution fixed part of our problem. Your solution did allow her to work with the content of the affected OneDrive files and folders directly and not have to access the subpar web version. The only issue we still have for our end is that I have numerous Python scripts I've created over the years that different employees run including her. It is unable to read these mapped locations directly like it can a locally stored path because they're internally looked at like a shortcut.

Either way, your solution still saves a lot of trouble so I appreciate it!