Mac Onedrive app: shared folders don't appear in Finder any more, and files seem to be online only.

Anonymous
2024-06-09T10:31:20+00:00

I had a folder shared with me, and I could fully sync it to my own mac - all the office files were available offline on my own mac (word, excel, ppt). It appeared as a folder in Finder in the Onedrive folder.

Since yesterday the shared folder has disappeared from finder, and all the files are no longer on the mac. They don't show up in a spotlight search. The folder has been replaced by a url that opens the shared folder online.

The folder is fully available when I access Onedrive through the web.

I can also open the shared files on Onedrive through the native Mac apps, if they appear in recent files, or browse to "Online locations", but these only show the recent locations that I had accessed through finder. I can't browse the entire folder through an app.

I have tried the following:

  • restarted the Mac
  • Signed out of Onedrive and signed back in again
  • Uninstalled and reinstalled Onedrive
  • In the web Onedrive I have clicked "add shortcut to my files". This places a url to the oneline folder in finder, which is useless.
  • Reset Onedrive via "Show Package Contents", etc....

Happening on both Mac M2 Air and Macbook Pro Intel, both have current versions of SW for both Mac and Office.

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneDrive | For home | MacOS

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-03-31T09:36:22+00:00

    Hello,

    Any update on this very frustrating situation.

    I only have URL for folder shared for which I have full access
    I need to be able to work of line with folder shared by others

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-04T02:58:10+00:00

    I have a windows desktop and share onedrive folders with my son and all of a sudden i lost access to the shared folder on my windows computer. I also have a mac and use shared onedrive folders and same thing happened today. I was previously able to see shared folders in Finder and today they were gone, and when I try to share by creating a shortcut in onedrive online i get a url instead of a folder. So it has happened to me on both a windows computer and a mac. Is the problem with onedrive?

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-04-04T03:02:10+00:00

    I did this as well and it did not work. I still have access to all files and folders in onedrive in a browser and I also backed them up on icloud. I may have to move to dropbox or icloud, but first i have to convince everyone using the shared folder to move! **** MS.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-04-04T03:45:29+00:00

    It is April 2025 and I have the same issue. Has this been resolved as yet?

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-04-04T03:51:48+00:00

    Unfortunately this did not work for me :(

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