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 The folder has been replaced by a url that opens the shared folder online.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
    2025-03-05T22:55:42+00:00

    I'm experiencing the same issue: two of my shared folders on my computer are appearing as web browser links. They were working fine before.

    I’ve even checked the folder permissions, and for both, I have "Direct Access" rather than "Shared via Link."

    Please advise on a solution as soon as possible.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-05T19:05:23+00:00

    Same problem as of today...

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-04T20:38:39+00:00

    Same issue here. Interestingly, my Mac Mini M2 is affected with the issue. The same link on my MacBook Pro currently still works as expected. This is a very annoying issue as I work in the finder, not with the onedrive browser interface.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-04T05:08:25+00:00

    thank you for doing that. I guess we should move over to drop box.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-03-04T05:06:59+00:00

    ya they are either dumb as a rock, or no one is keeping them aprise of this issue that has been open for over a year!

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