Windows 10: Mapping SharePoint Library / Changing Properties changes URL?

Hi,


I have mapped a SharePoint library to Quick Access in Windows Explorer. SharePoint sync is not permitted in my company, and this is a workaround.


However, when you right click the and bring up the properties of the mapped library in Quick access, you can change the folder's name. What happens next is unexpected - it renames the URL of the SharePoint library and knocks out the original link/name. The items is not lost, but the link is broken.


How can you stop people renaming a Quick access link:





For example, MappADrive: if I right click on it, change its name, it changes the actual URL of the SharePoint library.


Thanks in advance.


Zuke

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Mapping a List with Sharepoint

I'm trying to map a List for a client from SharePoint to file explorer. The issue is that the link I was provided to map is not a folder or a document; it is a list page, and the normal usual method of mapping a shared drive through file explorer isn't working,
because that method doesn't like the .aspx ending.

Other advice has been to go to SharePoint via Internet Explorer and I should see a tab labelled "Library" and from there I can open it in File Explorer etc. I can't see that Library tab, because this particular item isn't a document or a folder, it's a List.
Elsewhere in SharePoint I can see the Library tab and can successfully open in File Explorer etc, because those other pages are actual documents.

Is there a way to connect to a List as a shared drive in File Explorer? My feeling is that this isn't a thing that can be done.

What you see when you are viewing a List:





What you see when you're viewing a collection of documents:

 

Sharepoint links

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https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/custom...

 

Changing library location changes all other libraries

Try the Reset Defaults button on the property page of the library
You'll have to reconstruct the library to include the folders you want in it.