OneDrive syncing issue?

[Cebess]

Has anyone else seen the breaking down of behavior of OneDrive? In the past couple weeks, many of my friends have seen their shared folders turn into shortcuts that used to be synced to their hard drive. There is a workaround listed on a Microsoft site:

Redirecting

But that is really just a kludgy workaround not a fix, since the files then need a network connection to continue be accessed.

It appears to me that Microsoft has some of its servers that support OneDrive running a different version of software than others, since only some users are affected. This has been going on for weeks. Any ideas other than migrating away from OneDrive that might help -- since the bug appears to be a server issue, the only thing I can think of that allows remote synchronization is using another synchronization program that will sync the files from the OneDrive network connection.

 

[iamanomad]

OneDrive (at least the non enterprise version) was a disaster for me. I had grand plans of putting a couple of terabytes of data in OneDrive and it partially worked (about 80% of the data synced just fine), the remaining wouldn't sync for some bizarre reason and the recommended solution was to remove OneDrive from my device (MacOS in this case) and reinstall it. Of course that caused me to have to re-download all the files as I wanted them all local as well as in the cloud. I was able to upload the files that wouldn't go previously and I thought all was well. It wasn't as a few days later the sync problems started again and at that point I figured that I was going to give up on OneDrive because I can't go through pulling another 2T down to fix it again only to have the problem return in the future (from my research this wasn't a unique problem that I was experiencing). I ended up switching to DropBox and it did exactly what I wanted with no issues.

 

[Bplayer]

No problems here using OneDrive sync between 2 laptops and my iPhone. Also using it on a desktop for data backup after the local data folders have been compressed and encrypted to a backup file. Have been doing this for many years.

 

[Cebess]

Has anyone else seen the breaking down of behavior of OneDrive? In the past couple weeks, many of my friends have seen their shared folders turn into shortcuts that used to be synced to their hard drive. There is a workaround listed on a Microsoft site:

Redirecting

But that is really just a kludgy workaround not a fix, since the files then need a network connection to continue be accessed.

It appears to me that Microsoft has some of its servers that support OneDrive running a different version of software than others, since only some users are affected. This has been going on for weeks. Any ideas other than migrating away from OneDrive that might help -- since the bug appears to be a server issue, the only thing I can think of that allows remote synchronization is using another synchronization program that will sync the files from the OneDrive network connection.

Well it finally happened to me. All the the folders... others shared with me have turned into links. I placed a post in answers.microsoft.com and the response has been less than helpful. It has made OneDrive almost useless for sharing folders, since they no longer sync to my hard drive. This is unforgivable -- IMHO.