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Jin Chen
Iron Contributor
Nov 26, 2021

"Copy Link" to get URL to a file in teams keep spinning

Hello 

 

I am having issue when I try to "copy Link" to get an URL to a file or folder in teams. It keeps spinning but not generate a link. I am using Windows 11 and latest Teams. I have even reset my pc, clean cache, and reinstallled teams. Still not working

 

I have no issue with this feature in my win 10 computer with same teams account. So I am sure this issue is associate with my win 11 only. 

 

Anyone can help

 

Thanks

Ryan

 

      • Draculiaous's avatar
        Draculiaous
        Brass Contributor

        I have one Power user that's having this issue as well. With her this issue is occurring on a SharePoint site that she is syncing locally. Copy link just spins via Teams or from browsing to the SPO site and trying from there. She can browse to her sync'd folder in her Teams Post via the attach icon and attach the files there but not ideal as the copy link is what we want.

  • HeinzelAlex's avatar
    HeinzelAlex
    Copper Contributor
    Having the same issue and have no clue what to do. Will try empty cache and rejoin now.
  • TobbeD's avatar
    TobbeD
    Copper Contributor

    Jin Chen the solution that worked for me in the end was to log out of MS Teams on all devices (phone and ipad). When only logged on to my PC the "copy link" function started to work and it still does after I logged in on all devices again. Atleast for now 🙂

    • gt-sea's avatar
      gt-sea
      Copper Contributor

      TobbeD 

      One day it works, the next day it fails....  Still an issue for us.

      NOTE to Microsoft:

      This option was rock-solid – NEVER had a failure - until Microsoft started making changes.  This change has been handled so badly by Microsoft and if you read the community pages for this change, users hate it.  They want to keep the Microsoft Teams option and not send a SharePoint link which is very confusing. 

       

      How does Microsoft expect me to support them in this change?  The change has screwed us up for almost 3 months now and you’re removing a feature that my users love? 

  • jsnvelasco's avatar
    jsnvelasco
    Copper Contributor
    I have been struggling to get this working. This is only a Desktop issue from what I can tell as I can get the link and manage permissions from the web version of Teams. This really stinks as I'm trying to build a whole document management strategy and Knowledge Management workflow using Teams, and this is really getting in the way of helping my clients adopt managing documents within Teams...
    • Andy_Kinnard's avatar
      Andy_Kinnard
      Brass Contributor

      Also bumping this issue. Win 10 Pro 21H1 with all current updates. Teams desktop 1.4.00.32771 (64-bit). Clearing cached, sign out, back in, unistall/reinstall...none of that works. Copy link works on web and mobile.

    • tclark_mpg's avatar
      tclark_mpg
      Copper Contributor
      Still going on for us as well. 3 users and counting.
      Copy Link button on Teams doesn't work, neither does the copy link button on a document/item opened within teams.
      Web based works.
  • gt-sea's avatar
    gt-sea
    Copper Contributor
    Hi Jin Chen,
    We are getting this error now for users on Teams Desktop Ver. 1.4.00.31569. I tried clearing the teams cache, but no joy.
    Any idea why it started working for you again? Thanks
    • tclark_mpg's avatar
      tclark_mpg
      Copper Contributor

      I'm curious as well.  This began happening about a month ago to 1 user.  Today its another.

      Logged out and cleared cache.  That didn't work.

      Fully uninstalled, cleared all the Teams directories out and reinstalled.  No love.

       

      Teams is up to date.  Can't seem to get this working again.  

  • Bhav_Cit's avatar
    Bhav_Cit
    Copper Contributor
    Hi Ryan,

    Did you have any luck with sorting this, we have a few laptops doing this since the last 6 days. Have tried logging out and back in, uninstalled and re-installed Teams. Fails to work.


    Regards,
    Bhav
    • Jin Chen's avatar
      Jin Chen
      Iron Contributor
      Actually, it magically working from this morning. I am sure it was working yesterday
  • I've got windows 11 and it's working fine. How did you clear cache? Have you done a manually sign out and back in? That usually clears more cache than uninstall / reinstall for some reason. Gonna assume it works in teams.microsoft.com web?
    • Jin Chen's avatar
      Jin Chen
      Iron Contributor
      Chris,
      Thank you very much. I cleared the cache according to the instruction online by deleting all the files in Cache folders. I have also reset my entire win 11 pc. Yes, I did manually sign out and back in. Nothing works.

      "copy link" feature is working fine in team.microsoft.com WEB and my win 10 pc.

      Any further suggestion?

      Thanks
      Ryan

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