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 The folder has been replaced by a url that opens the shared folder online.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
    2025-04-04T03:02:10+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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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-18T04:00:57+00:00

    I agree with this hashtag. I’ve just posted on twitter (x)

    Please trend!

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-18T02:30:28+00:00

    I am pretty sure you got lucky. Once your files are migrated to the new server, the urls will become folders again but this can take a few days to happen. However, if you follow the steps you outlined in the interim, then the shared folders will come back faster. As such, I think your account was migrated and your unsharing/resharing accelerated the shared folders reappearing.

    #FixOneDrive, Microsoft.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-17T17:51:15+00:00

    Hello Everybody!

    Do you know if the issue happens on business subscription as well? Or is it reported just on family subs?

    I'm considering to move to business basic plan

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-03-15T18:57:44+00:00

    Did you do anything special ? Mine is still a URL ...

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