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Remove "Add shortcut to OneDrive" from Sharepoint Sites
I agree that the experience is better IF they only every try to sync that one location.
The problem comes in that they don't understand that syncing Folder C from folder A > B > C means that they now can't sync B or A.
What would be ideal (to my mind) would be something like folder
C added as shortcut, and try to add folder B or A, and so the client just moves everything and includes the NEW whole filepath requested - and B (and C) or A (and B>C are all synced at the highest requested folder level synced.
Right now, if you add Shortcuts to the OneDrive, it also prevents SharePoint sites showing up as separate entries, which I feel is a MUCH cleaner experience for the users to FIND the files and understand where they are saved into.
For Example last week I had users who didn't understand why everything was saved "into their OneDrive" but "copies" were "also saved in" the SharePoint sites.
They were trying to CLEAN UP the "Extra" OneDrive copies!
These of course weren't ACTUALLY copies or extra, but they had SHORTCUTS INTO the SharePoint sites, and were actively deleting important files and causing chaos in their organization.
The versioning systems let us restore things fine, but they had no idea the shortcuts were linking things.
Cleared out the shortcuts, and set them up with separately synced libraries and now it was obvious WHERE things were stored!
I am currently in the process of disabling Teams sync for all my clients (keeping just their OneDrive). So far so good, but I now need to remove both the Sync and Add shortcut to OneDrive buttons. Microsoft sure ain't making it easy for people who want to go 100% cloud only with no sync.