OneDrive customers have been going through a bizarre bug within the Shared Folders characteristic. This bug impacts the accessibility of the shared folders, they usually seem as web shortcuts (URL hyperlinks) reasonably than regular folders within the File Explorer.
If you click on on a shared folder, it redirects you to the net model of OneDrive reasonably than opening the folder.
A OneDrive consumer created a post on the Microsoft Discussion board about this anomaly with the service on June 8, 2024. In a month, the publish amassed almost 12000 views with 192 replies and 916 customers going through the identical concern.
As the issue started occurring with hundreds of customers, Microsoft up to date the highest part of the webpage with an replace on the problem.
“Some OneDrive customers might even see Shared Folders displayed as URL hyperlinks within the OneDrive sync shopper and apps.” mentioned the replace observe acknowledging the problem.
Other than the folders showing as hyperlinks in File Explorer, many customers are unable to sync them. Even when you strive including the folder to My Information, it creates an web shortcut.
The difficulty appears to stem from the information synchronization and dealing with throughout the OneDrive service.
Surprisingly, a consumer blames the KB5037853 (Might 2024 replace) for the OneDrive concern. He sifted by Occasion Viewer logs and located an error associated to OneDrive after putting in the replace. The shared folder concern started showing after that.
However this could possibly be a hypothesis or an remoted incident, as Microsoft hasn’t blamed the replace for it.
Home windows Newest tried recreating the error by making a shared folder from an account and accessing it on one other system. The shared folder appeared positive on the opposite PC and we may entry its contents with out a difficulty. Nonetheless, the menace looms.
Whereas it is a widespread concern, Microsoft’s response is fairly commonplace. The discussion board publish’s high part mentions that “OneDrive engineering is engaged on this concern, and URL hyperlinks will convert again to show as folders as soon as it’s resolved. Within the meantime, log in to your account at OneDrive.com anytime to entry your shared folders.”
In a nutshell, bear with it whereas the devs search out the bug and patch it. You’ll have to use the net model of OneDrive to entry the shared folder, which is a tad inconvenient.
Accessing it through File Explorer is less complicated, however it would solely redirect you to OneDrive’s webpage at this level. Some customers additionally tried the nice previous cures: unlink the account and reinstall OneDrive. Sadly, these gained’t work as a result of the characteristic is buggy.
So, keep put whereas Microsoft fixes OneDrive. We’ll preserve updating this publish as new options seem.
