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
    2025-05-28T01:28:33+00:00

    I just started having this same issue last month (May 2025) with one of my family members folders that are shared with me. Now all of my family members that have shared folders with me are converted the "Internet Shortcuts" in Windows Explorer. However, now I'm also seeing the same thing happening in the OneDrive App for Android.

    I see this is a known issue due to this article - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/onedrive-shared-folders-shortcuts-showing-up-as-internet-shortcuts-a69c3dfe-fa69-4c00-9331-0057d0e2aa83. Unfortunately, this article does not give an ETA on a fix, nor any useful suggestions on how to fix this.

    I have already had my family members delete and reshare the folders with me, but this made no difference.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-05-24T16:14:43+00:00

    ... and after all this messy things happens, microsoft still increasing the subscription price while they (still) can't figuring out how to solve their onedrive problems... *until now

    what are you microsoft? a startup company? FIX THIS!

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-05-06T03:31:09+00:00

    so how to solve the problem . i have a lot of the friends also suffer this problem.
    so how to do it .

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-05-05T12:42:20+00:00

    Today, I experienced this for the first time. All shared folders have been converted to internet shortcuts. May 04, 2025. What the heck happened this time?

    Has this bug never been fixed or did they just release it again?

    Seems to have come with the latest O365 Office update. Just applied it May 04, 2025.

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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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