With SharePoint Online, we used to get fairly clean URLs using the Copy Link functionality where we would remove the ? and everything after it. The clean URL would look something like this:
https://company.sharepoint.com/documents/spreadsheet.xlsx
But sometime in the last 2 months or so, SharePoint Online was updated and now adds garbage characters in the URL just after the root URL. So now we get a URL like this:
https://company.sharepoint.com/:x:/r/documents/spreadsheet.xlsx
where :x: could vary in character.
Anyone know how to get the :x:/r/ removed from the link generated by Copy Link without manually correcting the link? We link a lot of documents within one of our core business systems and this extra set of characters is causing problems with efficiency as we're having to remove them manually before using the link anywhere. Ugh.
BTW Microsoft, please remove this programmatically (revert the code to previous functionality) or provide a site configuration option to turn this part of the link off.