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  1. Mark Lee
    Mark Lee

    I used to have similar problems too, but after using “long path tool” everything was solved. Try this software and you would be glad you did.

  2. MikeG
    MikeG

    This article is excellent and provides a link example (\\DEVICENAME\Users\USERNAME\OneDrive\Documents\FOLDERNAME) that actually works for linking a folder in OneNote. Thank you!

    I found this after suggestions provided on Microsoft Answers and other resources failed. For those complaining, unfortunately this is a more advanced topic due to different storage types (local, network, cloud) and different link syntax required depending on what you’re trying to do.

    1. Ciprian Adrian Rusen
      Ciprian Adrian Rusen

      Glad to help. Do not hesitate to subscribe to our e-mail newsletter, for more useful tutorials.

  3. pingpong
    pingpong

    Not very helpful
    🙁

    1. Anonymous
      Anonymous

      Why? How did we fail to help in this article?

  4. Laurie Bellino
    Laurie Bellino

    This doesn’t work for a specific file path. I used to be able to do it, but now it won’t let me. I’m looking for a link to just the file path and not a specific document, since there are multiple documents in the folder I want people to look at. Anyway to do that? Thanks.

  5. Luiz
    Luiz

    It dosen’t work . file:// is not a link

  6. lina
    lina

    What if the person your sending it to do not have access to that folder. How are we supposed to send it for the person to access it.

  7. Tim Murray
    Tim Murray

    Recipients of an Outlook message with file:// can’t seem to get to the file; we usually see “The file /SHARED/andSoOn…” could not be found. I’d rather figure out how to get a Mac to use file:// instead of telling the boss to use smb: instead — do you know how?

    1. Ciprian Adrian Rusen
      Ciprian Adrian Rusen

      Are the recipients in the same network with you?