Guide

Someone sent me a path and it won’t open

Paste it into the app and press Find it on my PC. That’s the whole job. It works out which project library the path belongs to, finds your copy of that library, and opens Explorer with the file selected.

It accepts whatever they sent you: a Windows path, a SharePoint address, or a link made by this app.

Send a link that works for everyone

When the app has found a file, press Copy a link that works for everyone and paste that into Teams. Anyone who clicks it gets the file opened on their PC — with their username, their folder layout, even if they renamed the project folder.

This is the half worth adopting. The resolver repairs a broken path after the fact; the link means one never gets sent.

“You haven’t synced this library”

This means the project isn’t on your PC at all — so there’s no folder to open, and no tool can conjure one. You have two ways forward, and the app offers both: open it in the browser (works immediately, nothing to install), or add the library to your PC in OneDrive, after which every future link to that project will open instantly.

“Matched by folder name — double-check this is the right file”

You’ll see this when the sender pasted a raw Windows path rather than using this app. A raw path carries no identity, only names — so we matched on the folder name, and if you happen to have renamed your copy of that project, the match could be wrong. It usually isn’t. But we’d rather tell you than let you trust it blindly.

Links made by this app never have this problem: they carry the project’s real identity, so renames can’t fool them.

“That path is inside the sender’s personal OneDrive”

They sent you something from their own private OneDrive, not a shared project library. Nobody else can see those files — there is no copy of it on your machine to open. Ask them to move it into the project library and share it again.

It didn’t find my folder

Run the diagnostic. It prints exactly what the app read from OneDrive, what it understood your link to mean, every path it looked at, and why it concluded what it did — so the problem is visible rather than a guess.

If it reports undecoded scope lines, that means OneDrive changed the format of its settings file and the app needs updating. Please report it — that message exists precisely so that a silent breakage can’t masquerade as “you have no projects”.