One Drive folders changed to Internet Shortcuts - FOR THE SECOND TIME!!!

Anonymous
2025-02-19T00:12:24+00:00

In June 2024, my shared One Drive folders changed to Internet Shortcuts. Despite trying any suggestions we could find, and hearing nothing but canned responses from MicroSoft, we opted to spend a weekend changing to a new email address / MicroSoft / One Drive account after 6 months of frustration.

Today, that new account once again changed my One Drive folders to Internet shortcuts. Besides going through the entire new email address process again, have I missed any workarounds for this?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-04-18T11:28:07+00:00

    Same with our company. It's been a brutal 9 months of waiting for a few of our staff, and here in this past week, several of our staff who haven't had this issue now do have it, so we've actually been going backwards with this issue. I'm giving it one more week I think before switching to another service entirely as enough of the staff have the issue now that we're at that breaking point basically.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-20T06:54:45+00:00

    It's been fixed for me for over a week now

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-04-21T04:46:36+00:00

    That's good, for you. I'm still looking at "Internet Shortcut" file types that used to be direct folder links.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-04-22T15:30:12+00:00

    ...no change here as well (since February). Our business folders are now in a mess and I keep stalling my workload, which is bad from my small buisness... I'm so so so angry... My business partner and I now looking for alternative options with other providers.

    ...so so angry... :(

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-05-01T21:00:31+00:00

    We rely on OneDrive shared folders for our business. This issue has been seriously hampering our ability to co-work on accounts. Not to mention the sheer hours wasted uninstalling and reinstalling OneDrive. I'm now researching different shared file apps to migrate to. This won't work

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