Microsoft Onedrive: Unhide folders/files which were Hidden from Shared

Anonymous
2024-04-03T08:26:16+00:00

Good Morning.

A user in our office went onto OneDrive Online and accidentally clicked on the Hide from Shared button on one of the folders which was shared with him.

It gave a message that read:

"Remove Folder

If you remove this folder, you'll still have access to it, but it won't appear here."

He then clicked on the remove button.

So, the folder is currently "hidden".

Please advise on how to unhide it, so it shows up in the "shared with me" view again.

Additional information:

  1. I saw a YouTube video where a lady fixed it by clicking on a filter button and clicking to show the hidden folders. But there is no filter button available on my screen.

Currently Using Edge as browser.

  1. If you search in the "Search Everything" Bar for the folder it shows up, but we want it displayed correctly again.

Thanks.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-11-05T07:36:32+00:00

    I have the same issue. It's ridiculous that Microsoft has no solution for this. One work around, is the use the search everything folder, then right click on the hidden folder, select open file location, , you will again see the hidden folder, then right click on the folder again, and select Add shortcut to my files. Your hidden folder will now show up as a shortcut under My files.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-11-05T08:36:11+00:00

    This is possible in the webbrowser indeed.

    But on the mobile app, the folder is not visible, also not in a search.

    How can we address this to Microsoft as a bug/issue?

    I assume that Microsoft is not checking all treats here for bugs.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-07T09:18:33+00:00

    The issue is still there.

    In the Onedrive business version you have a hide-in-shared-foldfer button and also a unhide-from-hidden-in-shared-folder.

    It is working correctly.

    In the Onedrive personal (I do have a 365-subscription) only the hide function is there. No unhide option!!!

    HOW to report and escalate this at Microsoft????

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-20T20:20:36+00:00

    tuviste la solucion?

    cual es?

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-03-03T22:24:30+00:00

    The problem is deeper than unhiding folders that have been hidden. The integrated File Explorer capability for "Folders Shared With Me" and "Shortcut Added to MyFiles" is gone! The hidden folder is now only accessible as a shortcut with an internet link to OneDrive online. You can't drill into the folder from File Explorer any more. This seems to be happens asynchronously across different machines, so some have it and some don't. Woke up to OneDrive folders shared with me as a shortcut in OneDrive MyFiles now shown as a shortcut with an internet link in File Explorer. Hid the folder and could not unhide per this thread. Had the owner of the shared folder remove shared access and reapply sharing. Then the shortcut only access became obvious. This might be transient - will look again in the future. For now - OneDrive shared folders will be accessed using an internet browser instead of File Explorer. Edit Note: Adding a new shared folder results in visible folder but sharing shortcut doesn't integrate with File Explorer properly, only as a shortcut. Will submit error report.

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