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Unable to Remove Deleted File from Shared With Me
2019 Update. I may have found a solution - I too could not remove "Shared with Me" files and could not find them in OneDrive....turns out they WERE NOT in OneDrive. They were in Office.com - I think this is because these files are so old, there was no OneDrive at the time or the person that shared the files was only using Office.com - just my guess. If you log into Office.com using the same credentials as OneDrive, there is also a "Shared with Me" tab - I found all my old files there....Just click on the file to open it up online, on the right there is a drop-down. Choose Delete...I did this with all files and now my problem is gone.
Hope this helps anyone who is reading this!!!
Smiddy
Hi,
I'm hoping somebody can help with an issue I am having please.
I too have files under "shared with me", but the problem I'm facing is that I can no longer open the files that were originally shared with me due to the historic emails being deleted. I've contacted MS support several times but nobody is able to assist. I've even contacted the original file senders, but they no longer have access to the files due to the accounts being closed. Smiddy2370 I followed your steps, and found the files on Office.com (as per attached), but I can't access them to remove myself, so I haven't had any luck. They're also showing on my Excel/Word applications but no option to remove from their either!
If anyone has any solutions that would be very helpful. Why doesn't Microsoft should give users the option to easily remove files from "shared with me"??! I have been trying for months with no luck!
Thanks,
Umar
- Same problem here. Any solution yet?
UH123640 - I was wondering - can you just right click on the files (In Office.com) instead of trying to open them? Maybe there is an option to remove them without opening.
It's just a guess on my part as I no longer have any shared files to test.
Smiddy
- Hi Smiddy,
I’ve tried this too. There’s nothing you can do from your end unfortunately.
I’ve even reported this to the Microsoft support team and they’ve noted it as “feedback”, but haven’t heard anything since.- Same problem here! Microsoft, please fix asap! This problem has forst been reportet 4(!) years ago!
