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Weird serious problem with shared folders in personal Onedrive after windows 10 update.
Found some more info on this problem/behaviour.
From looking though busiest https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedrive-shared-folders-can-no-longer-sync-locally/12009026-9519-4d39-ae60-6900b45255f3 I found it appears that MS are doing a backend migration of OneDrive servers which breaks the ability to have Shared Folders syncing locally...at least while the connected OneDrive's are on different versions of the backend.
Supposedly presenting a web link is intended behaviour while backends are out of alignment and it will automatically fix itself once main + shared folder are hosted on the same backend version 😔🤞
Apparently this has been happening (so I guess that's how long the migration has been taking!) for some people since at least June 2024 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/why-is-a-shared-onedrive-folder-not-syncing-to-my/be5e50d5-df0e-4f5b-89b9-5e215feb0bc9
Official info about this currently in the 'Important' box of https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/add-shortcuts-to-shared-folders-in-onedrive-d66b1347-99b7-4470-9360-ffc048d35a33
Hope those links I found prove useful to others who find this thread
Thanks. That's useful. Is there any way of knowing which accounts have been migrated and which haven't? Or how long this nightmare will last?
At least! Onedrive has put itself right on my laptop. I noticed this morning that Onedrive said it was updating or re-syncing 6000 Onedrive files. It did this quite quickly, so I think it perhaps was just adjusting addresses. I then saw that the shortcut to “Shared with MHMC folk”, which recently only led to the browser version, had disappeared from File Explorer, though it was still there on the browser. On the browser, I deleted the shortcut and then reinstated it (which I’d done before with no effect), and the link then appeared fully working in File Explorer. I'm very relieved, but I think it's disgraceful that Microsoft has created this situation.
Looks like a fix has been found as my laptop and also my wifes one drive shared folders have reapeared in our respective one drive folders. Hopefully this is the end to this saga. It must have been in the lastest windows update.
