Microsoft’s cloud storage solution OneDrive is currently in the middle of a major issue but only for certain people. The service’s shared folders have suddenly become internet shortcuts.
Shared folder, a major feature in Microsoft OneDrive, is seemingly bugged at the moment according to several user reports online. We were informed about this issue by a Neowin reader. The folders that are added using the „Add shortcut to My files“ option seem to have been replaced by internet shortcuts.
The problem appears to have been first reported by PradeepSG on the Microsoft forum. They wrote:
Folders Shared with me are syncing as internet shortcut in OneDrive on Windows PC
Hi. I had some folders shared from different users in my OneDrive account. I had added the folders to my OneDrive with Add Shortcut to OneDrive button from Shared folders in cloud. The account is logged into a windows pc and every files including the folders shared with my were syncing fine until yesterday. Yesterday night the shared folders were completely removed from the Windows pc and folders are replaced with internet shortcut.
