Embedding links change to 1drv how to change back to onedrive.live

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Embedding links change to 1drv how to change back to onedrive.live

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Hi, I am trying in excel to use get data>>>from web>>> And insert a onedrive embed link (and changing embed to download) but lately when i go to embed on onedrive it is no longer giving me onedrive.live links it is shortening them to 1drv links, how to change it back or what is the root cause? Please let me know as i have multiple computers relying on this. Thanks, joe

John Diaz 0 Reputation points

2024-12-23T18:08:43.45+00:00

I'm having a similar issue:

Old OneDrive URL format for an image I had embedded:

https://dm2301files.storage.live.com/y4mhU6_ak-O9nkd6IjI2ql_F10utl61xAd4h-6P2qOlXvjSMW49ndsamZA5oQg7FExnoalIpYzDEW4ohhpsU_Njl3jnT5sf0GKr8IxwFNU_JfZklsqrwIrwJcyX5yur16Ja5EBUJZKV4Qu_0Gkodzt2eo7346KXMRFL4iVUf-dNAQujpb8jFsIuFcJVYZGib-TY?width=1024&height=1024&cropmode=none

New OneDrive URL format for the same image:

https://1drv.ms/i/s!Anmnp2cMWY1Ogrs7O2L82VdBp7NCYQ?embed=1&width=1024

The problem is, the application I had the image embedded has thousands of images using the older embed URL format. The change in OneDrive's URL format has now broken my application and I have no way of going through each individual image to convert to the new format. I can't even decipher a way to "translate" the older URL to the new one....

Please help.
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2024-12-23T22:21:59.6633333+00:00

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John Diaz 0 Reputation points

2024-12-23T18:08:43.45+00:00

I'm having a similar issue:

Old OneDrive URL format for an image I had embedded:

https://dm2301files.storage.live.com/y4mhU6_ak-O9nkd6IjI2ql_F10utl61xAd4h-6P2qOlXvjSMW49ndsamZA5oQg7FExnoalIpYzDEW4ohhpsU_Njl3jnT5sf0GKr8IxwFNU_JfZklsqrwIrwJcyX5yur16Ja5EBUJZKV4Qu_0Gkodzt2eo7346KXMRFL4iVUf-dNAQujpb8jFsIuFcJVYZGib-TY?width=1024&height=1024&cropmode=none

New OneDrive URL format for the same image:

https://1drv.ms/i/s!Anmnp2cMWY1Ogrs7O2L82VdBp7NCYQ?embed=1&width=1024

The problem is, the application I had the image embedded has thousands of images using the older embed URL format. The change in OneDrive's URL format has now broken my application and I have no way of going through each individual image to convert to the new format. I can't even decipher a way to "translate" the older URL to the new one....

Please help.
Erland Sommarskog 133.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2024-12-23T22:21:59.6633333+00:00

The proper way to get help in Microsoft Q&A is to ask a new Question, not to piggyback on old questions.

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Hi @J

I haven't found any related Microsoft official documentations from Microsoft yet. Maybe Microsoft changed the format of the personal OneDrive embed links.

Here is a workaround, please check whether it is helpful to you:

Get the embedded code from OneDrive.
Open the URL that it gives in a bowser Incognito windows, the URL that opens should be the "onedrive.live" link.

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