Windows One Drive shared folder suddenly become shortcut instead of folders
Hi, I am having an issue that I need help with. I have my One Drive account for several years. I have my main account signed in on my laptop. I have 4 other users sharing their folder with edit access to my main account. I add them as short cut to my main account. In the past, on my laptop, they function as folders. Meaning, I can move, delete, add files and they essentially function as a folder. Now, all my shared folder from my other users suddenly becomes short cut. When I open the folder, it brings me to the browser for me to sign in and view them. This never happened before and I am not sure what caused it. Please help. Edit Update: I am able to fix this by logging into One Drive with my other user account. Seems like not all accounts are affected only some. I know its not a fixed but at least a temporary solution. The problem seems to be on Microsoft side and I hope they fixed it soon or else I will be going to Google Drive. Update 2: This issue was ongoing since June 7, 2024. As of today, June 19, 2024 it still has not been fixed. Also, one of the Always on device folder on my laptop start deleting stuff on its own. I had to disble the always on device to get it to stop. Great job Microsoft, the most valueable company in the world. I think I will be moving to Google Drive.
Issue with accessing personal vault on OneDrive app post restart
When I opened my onedrive mobile app today the app pushed a message saying that a restart was required. I restarted the app and it told me to set up my personal vault. I've been using my personal vault for several years now so no set up was required. When I logged into my personal vault, all of the files within it were missing. They're available on the online version of onedrive but not in the app version. There's nothing in the recycling bin and there's no recent activity to suggest mass movement/deletion of files. I've restarted the app multiple times, tried with and without wifi, and have tried on different devices - all are showing an empty vault. Has anyone had this problem? Is this a syncing issue or a bug with the new app?Removed Documents on D Drive?
I have a PC with Win 10 on C drive, but all my documents (pictures, music, documents) live on the D drive, which is a separate 3TB HDD drive on my PC. I noticed that in Windows Explorer "Documents" folder was pointing to the OneDrive folder and not the Documents folder on my D: drive. So I attempted to unlink OneDrive from my PC and told it not to sync with all my folders. A couple folders were grayed out, in particular the documents folder. So, I told OneDrive to completely unlink from this PC. I had no idea that OneDrive was even linked in any way to the Documents folder on my D drive, however, after telling OneDrive to go away I don't want you anymore, now everything in my documents folder on my D drive is just, gone. I checked Recycle Bin, not there. I did a reset/restore to a earlier date (two days ago), but this did not bring anything in the folder back. What happened? Where did all the documents go?
Sync performance and the future of OneDrive sync
Many of us have experienced significant performance issues with OneDrive when syncing large volumes of files (300,000+). This has been a long-standing problem. Has there been any communication from Microsoft regarding the future of OneDrive sync and plans to resolve this issue? We do not encounter this level of performance degradation in competing products, and it has been a major headache for our customers. I understand that the recommended approach is to use OneDrive and SharePoint through the web interface. However, we do not always have control over how our customers choose to use their data. In many cases, our customers prefer to utilize the Sync feature for syncing hundreds of thousands of files or more. What actions are being taken on the development side to address this issue?
Onedrive not syncing to file explorer (Windows11)
Hi team, I've recently come across an issue with my one drive suddenly not syncing to my file explorer. I have lost access to viewing my shared documents in file explorer. I can only access my shared files via them default opening in a webpage and not the local file explorer like they used to. I do not have access to change the default program via the "open with" option as I have seen could work - the only option I have is "open" which then opens the webpage. Can anyone help advise how to work around this and regain access to my shared files in file explorer please? Thanks.Issues with One Drive on Mac
Hi Recently One Drive stopped working on my mac with a repeated pop up saying it was broken. I reinstalled it and I'm still having issues. I have around 250gb of files stored in there but most of that is photo back up. I am a freelancer and I have always worked straight out of One Drive folders on my mac, so I know it's backed up in the cloud and I can access it elsewhere if I need to. However since the update and syncing etc it's not working as it was. I don't want to download all of my files to my mac as I only need two folders that contain all the stuff I regularly work on and I don't have space for all of it. I've tried ctrl clicking on these folders to keep them on my device but that then triggers a pop up to say the device couldn't connect to the server. The wifi etc is fine. If I go into One Drive preferences it then says it can't locate my 'Personal' folder (cue panic as this is where all the photos are stored) but when I go online it is all there. Can anyone help me solve this? I had an email recently saying the price of office was going up a LOT recently which I resent as I can't even get this to work as it was. I really don't want to uninstall again if I can help it as One Drive is just trying to sync all the time and using up so much CPU. Thanks FayeSyncing a virtual partition with OneDrive possible?
I have a question. My company laptop has a virtual Partition (drive D:\ ) which is physically located in C:\DiskD Is it possible to synchronize all files in that D: drive (C:\DiskD) with OneDrive so I can work with the files save them on D:\ and they are permanently synchronized with OneDrive?I can't access my Onedrive files in web browser or sync my Desktop with the Onedrive
In browser instead of showing my files, one drive just gives a message "Item Disabled Due To User Content Migration". My files are still on my device however this device won't sync to Onedrive, it just endlessly gives "signing in" .
OneDrive Bug - Sync in endless loop
Hi, I've encountered a strange issue with OneDrive recently. Our company uses SharePoint as main cloud storage for all kinds of data (images, files, ...). We have around 4 TB of data in total. Users synchronize all folders they need with OneDrive and it works pretty good, even with bigger folders that have up to 1 TB of data. Now, a strange sync issue appeared out of nowhere: When starting to sync a folder, OneDrive gets stuck at "[NUMBER] changes are being processed" - this number is ever increasing, it even went up to 2 MILLION changes even if the folder that was selected only had a handfull of files in it. This is what it looks like: What I've tried to fix this: Reset OneDrive Log out of OneDrive Reinstall OneDrive Stop sync for all folders Deactivate OneDrive backup This issue happend on multiple devices (Windows 10 and 11), for different users, different folders and storage locations on SharePoint. Has anyone noticed similar issues recently? I couldn't find anything online. MS Support told me to just wipe the device and reinstall Windows. EDIT: I just wiped a laptop, installed Windows 11, signed in to OneDrive with a test user and started synchronzing a small SharePoint folder - same issue still happens! What do you think? I'd really appreciate any help, comments or ideas!
OneDrive For Mac Problems
Hi there, For the last couple of months I've been seamlessly using the OneDrive integration for MacOSX which allows me to have my company SharePoint/OneDrive document folder shortcutted into my finder window; allowing me access without having to login to the browser SharePoint everytime. February 15, 2025 is the first day I noticed an error message saying that it was refusing to sync. The following day I received a message from OneDrive saying that some random file in my SharePoint name was too long and because of that it refuses to sync. Now, I've been on the edge of my sanity the past two days as I've tried effectively everything from deleting & redownloading OneDrive, to changing the location of the folders, to backing up my computer and factory resetting my harddrive; all to now avail. I can't even have the OneDrive software open long enough to poke around the settings because as soon as I open it up, I get an error message saying that a filename or pathway is too long and it rage crashes. I was I guess wondering if anyone else has found, over the last two weeks, this has been happening and how to fix it? I would like to have easy access to my company files again.
