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"Copy Link" to get URL to a folder in Teams does not always work properly - incorrect link copied
I have had mixed success copying the link of a FOLDER in a teams folder, and pasting it into a post. Since I often remove and upload new files, I don't like to link to individual files in my posts, but rather to the folder that file is in. Sometimes, when I select a folder, then choose "Copy Link" then paste that into a chat and test the link, the link does not take me to the folder, but rather to the top level of the Files in my team. Sometimes, however, it does work and when you click it takes you directly to the folder itself. This seems buggy to me.
PeterRising - We are all working within Teams, so I don't want to send people to a SharePoint link (plus copying that link is not an option when I'm clicking on the Teams folder), so even if it were more reliable (it probably is), I wouldn't want to use it.
Now I see at if you OPEN a folder and go to the top there is a "Copy Link" which gives me both options. Perhaps that "Copy Link" command is more reliable than the one at the level above when you click on the "..." to the right of the folder itself.
When in the folder, the "Copy Link" URL looks like this:
https://teams.microsoft.com/_#/files/General? ...blahblahblah..%252FRoles%2520and%2520Responsibilities which is correct..
When outside the folder, selecting the folder, the "..." and "Copy Link", the URL looks like this:
https://teams.microsoft.com/_#/apps/...blahblahblah....thread.tacv2 and brings me to the top folder, which is incorrect.
At least I found a workaround - but maybe should be logged as a bug!
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Just adding +1 - happens across several of the tenants I use/ manage.
Click on Copy Link in the top bar or right click copy link - same happens
white box, spinning circle, never resolves.
SharePoint will SOMETIMES resolve ...but then as others have said you end up with a SharePoint link not a Teams linkWe have same issue in Microsoft Teams application. Looking forward for Microsoft to resolve this ASAP.
- We have noticed that when we use Copy Link from Teams (desktop and web) we do not have the option to select a Teams link.
The link that is proposed is to SharePoint.
We work in TEAMS all the time and until a week or so ago we could create a link to Teams so our users could stay in Teams.
Where has the Copy Link - Teams gone?- I noticed this same thing happened with one of our user recently. User is not getting Teams sharable link when try to click on "Copy Link" in teams Files but instead only get SharePoint sharable link only.
Before one week it was giving two option for sharable link Teams and sharepoint which in my Teams still is.
Only one user has seen this change so far.
Anyone one know why it is happening?
Hi, I can't say I've ever seen this issue. Have you tried copying the SharePoint link instead? Is that any more consistent?
- This is not an acceptable response ...
- Any chance this could get logged as a BUG and Fixed?
PeterRising - We are all working within Teams, so I don't want to send people to a SharePoint link (plus copying that link is not an option when I'm clicking on the Teams folder), so even if it were more reliable (it probably is), I wouldn't want to use it.
Now I see at if you OPEN a folder and go to the top there is a "Copy Link" which gives me both options. Perhaps that "Copy Link" command is more reliable than the one at the level above when you click on the "..." to the right of the folder itself.
When in the folder, the "Copy Link" URL looks like this:
https://teams.microsoft.com/_#/files/General? ...blahblahblah..%252FRoles%2520and%2520Responsibilities which is correct..
When outside the folder, selecting the folder, the "..." and "Copy Link", the URL looks like this:
https://teams.microsoft.com/_#/apps/...blahblahblah....thread.tacv2 and brings me to the top folder, which is incorrect.
At least I found a workaround - but maybe should be logged as a bug!
- Hi,
when I copy the URL inside the folder or outside I get the same wrong direction when clicking on the link that I paste. Really annoying.
/Gustavo
