OneDrive vs. Sharepoint - URL Structure

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Question

How do you tell the difference between a OneDrive link and a SharePoint link? And how to read them?

Answer

SharePoint Link

OneDrive Link

will always have /site/ near the beginning of the URL.

will have a my.sharepoint.com near the beginning of its link.

example:

https://cometmail.sharepoint.com/sites/Testteam269/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems

example:

https://cometmail-my.sharepoint.com/personal/

OneDrive

Now that we can tell the difference between the two, here is how to read the URLs:

Links are the easy to read because they tend to be relatively short.

Example:

https://cometmail-my.sharepoint.com/personal/(users netid)_utdallas_edu/

The bolded part of the URL tells you whose OneDrive account it is.

(users netid)

The bolded end of the URL will tell you the file or folder location.

Example:

personal%2F{NetID}%5Futdallas%5Fedu%2FDocuments%2FRecordings can be translated to personal/NetID/documents/recordings

OneDrive link

(Short Link + Fole Folder Location):

https://cometmail-my.sharepoint.com/personal/(users netid)_utdallas_edu/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2F{NetID}%5Futdallas%5Fedu%2FDocuments%2FRecordings

Note: Stream's default recorded meetings will be stored in the meeting owner's OneDrive. The recordings can be found in a folder named "Recordings". If a different user needs access to a file in OneDrive, the owner will have to provide them access.

SharePoint

Now that we can read a OneDrive URL, lets apply the same to the SharePoint URL:

Link shows

Websites name

The end of the URL is just like the OneDrive URL,

where it shows you the file or folder path.

SharePoint link

Example

https://cometmail.sharepoint.com/sites/Testteam269.

Example

wid=61dac970%2Dce61%2D4716%2Da94f%2D9096dea43e1b&id=%2Fsites%2FTestteam269%2FShared%20Documents%2FGeneral%2FRecordings

Translates to = site/testteam269/documents/general/recordings

https://cometmail.sharepoint.com/sites/Testteam269/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?viewid=61dac970%2Dce61%2D4716%2Da94f%2D9096dea43e1b&id=%2Fsites%2FTestteam269%2FShared%20Documents%2FGeneral%2FRecordings

Note: Stream's default meeting recording location for channel meetings will be in Teams' "Recordings" folder. If a user needs access to a file in SharePoint, then the team owner will need to provide them access.

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