Why do OneDrive (for Business) folders shared to me NOT show up in my (personal) OneDrive?

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Why do OneDrive (for Business) folders shared to me NOT show up in my (personal) OneDrive?

John Straffin 6

I work with an organization that has a Microsoft 365 for Business account. They have shared a folder with me, and I receive the notification email, but it ends up being in it's own space and not attached to the Microsoft Account associated with the email address. How can they share the folder with me so that it shows up in my OneDrive when I log in instead of just under this special URL? I'd like to have the folder actually sync to my local drive, but it never shows up in my actual OneDrive account, so...

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ernesto pellegrino 1 Reputation point

2022-02-06T06:43:05.043+00:00
hello @John Straffin , I had the same issue and found a workaround as it follows:

open your onedrive for business account and go to sharepoint (if you can't you should talk to the sys admin)

create a site on sharepoint and move the folders from onedrive for business over there

now you can create a shortcut in onedrive too if you want

when inside sharepoint documents, click on the Sync button

Now Onedrive for business on your PC should start and should add all of the folders and files you have online, on your PC where you have the personal account

In this way you can easily access files and move them around between the two accounts from your PC

I hope this is a solution for you too.

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ernesto pellegrino 1 Reputation point

2022-02-06T06:43:05.043+00:00

hello @John Straffin , I had the same issue and found a workaround as it follows:

open your onedrive for business account and go to sharepoint (if you can't you should talk to the sys admin)

create a site on sharepoint and move the folders from onedrive for business over there

now you can create a shortcut in onedrive too if you want

when inside sharepoint documents, click on the Sync button

Now Onedrive for business on your PC should start and should add all of the folders and files you have online, on your PC where you have the personal account

In this way you can easily access files and move them around between the two accounts from your PC

I hope this is a solution for you too.

Answer 1

trevorseward 11,711

Simply put, you can't.

You would need to have a full licensed account in their tenant and you'd have a separate OneDrive for Business site for your documents.

Li Zhang_MSFT 1,566 Reputation points

2021-01-27T11:59:50.247+00:00

Thank you for sharing!

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Li Zhang_MSFT 1,566

Hi @John Straffin ,

OneDrive for Personal and OneDrive for Business are completely different.

We could generate links for shared folders from OneDrive for Business and they can be seen via the links, however they will not be shown up in our OneDrive for Personal.

As trevorseward said, sharing folders between OneDrive for Business account will work well.

Similar question for your reference:

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/70318/share-a-folder-between-onedrive-and-onedrive-for-business

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Li Zhang_MSFT 1,566 Reputation points

2021-01-29T08:29:12.013+00:00

Hi @John Straffin ,

Is there any progress on this thread?

If you need further assistance, please feel free to reply.
Li Zhang_MSFT 1,566 Reputation points

2021-02-09T01:01:22.273+00:00

Hi @John Straffin ,

If my answer helps you, please click "Accept Answer" so that users who have the same question can refer to it.

Thank you for your support and understanding.

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DUY TRAN 1

I have the same issue too, my OneDrive for business shares a folder to OneDrive personal, and I can't see the "shared with me" when logged into OneDrive for personal account.

Now I run into your question and all answers here, I can be sure that this can't work

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Why do OneDrive (for Business) folders shared to me NOT show up in my (personal) OneDrive?

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