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

I'm having the same problem too. Today everything was suddenly an internet shortcut. Makes accessing my files a complete mess. Microsoft needs to fix this.

I found a fix!
Switch to DROPBOX.
I am so disappointed in Microsoft's technical support. This issue has been going on for months and is unacceptable.
If enough people switch to another cloud-based company, they may get the hint.

So far DROPBOX seems more stable, quicker, and has better support. $10/m gets you 2TB of storage with more features than Onedrive.

Good luck everyone!

I don't know if this will work for others, but I stumbled across a solution since I just had this experience. I found all my folders in my recycle bin. I never put them there but for some reason they were there. I clicked "restore" and that fixed it all.

Hi Lori Smith4,

I went through your post carefully and I totally understand that you had experienced the OneDrive shortcuts issue in June 2024 for the first time, but now again the same issue reappeared that the shared OneDrive folders are showing as Internet shortcut on the OneDrive client sync app.

If my understanding is correct, in recent days, I did find there have started with some other customers reporting that the same shortcut issue is appearing again on their sides. Below is some information from my search across the community, I believe you are not the only one who are again experiencing the issue and some screenshots I attached showing that some customers are reporting the same internet shortcut issue happening on his side in the previous hot issue threads:

OneDrive shared folders are now a url shortcut - Microsoft Community

(On the last pages, we can notice some users started to experience it again in recent weeks from Feb.)

OneDrive shared folders show up as Internet options in local folders · OneDrive Feedback Community

(Also from OneDrive feedback community, this issue became Top1 again and many users are reporting the issue happening again.)

Folders Shared with me are syncing as internet shortcut in OneDrive on - Microsoft Community When I checked at the last page, it seems like yesterday a customer provided the same workaround again which you have already worked for 6 months, but I do understand that re-create a new account and move everything can be really time-consuming and unacceptable as this is a serious bug that OneDrive product team should absolutely resolve it ASAP since it really have causing the inconveniences for many users till NOW.

However, since it is highly possible that the issue you are experiencing is related to the OneDrive product side instead of the end user's side. As a community moderator here, I may have limited troubleshooting suggestions offer to you that may still failed to resolve the potential product bug issue. Besides recreate account, it seems like I failed to find other workarounds. Hence, to make sure you can get the dedicated support from engineers that can make remote sessions to collect the backend HAR logs from more end devices and investigate deeper to find out the root cause of the ongoing OneDrive shared folder issue and make sure to fix the issue ASAP to prevent this from happening again, I suggest affected users contact the Microsoft online support team where engineers there can offer more support resources for this scenario like remote session to collect logs, and also report this directly to the internal OneDrive feedback channel ASAP. Kindly click: Contact Us - Microsoft Support****or if it is not convenient, directly submit feedback via the in-app channel: Send OneDrive Feedback - Microsoft Support

Please correct me if I made any misunderstanding or if there have anything else I can do for you. In the meantime, if I receive any bugfix notifications on our side, I'll share them with you here as soon as possible! I appreciate your time and patience on checking my reply. Hope you stay well and safe!

Best Regards,

Mia

Same problem here, nothing we can do to fix it but wait. How could a large company make such a simple mistake? It’s completely unreasonable.