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On one hand this is an edge case, on the other things like this make me wonder how computers can even work if first-party software built specifically for nothing but managing files fails to gracefully handle a folder structure a user created by hand.

That was exactly my take home from this. Windows has some very serious flaws in it when it comes to data integrity. I do not trust it and do not use it myself.

It's 3 in the morning and I couldn't stop laughing out loud when I read this. Poor OneDrive lol.

I hope she managed to keep all her files and didn't lose anything.

It still works and she hasn't lost anything but you can't actually move or delete any files any more because windows explorer craps out too!

I literally have no idea what to do with it :(

My assumption is she ran into the max path length limitation, here's how to fix it https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maxim...

That was one of the problems. Unfortunately after fixing that it's still broken.

You could write a short PowerShell script that recursively deletes shortcuts and symlinks, but I'd certainly take a full backup and have it offline before I kicked out off.