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General folder automatically created
Hi
For some reason Teams keeps creating a folder called General for a all teams I'm a member of. This is really annoying as it gets replicated on a sharepoint site where we don't want a folder call General. If the folder is deleted it reappears (is created by me) when I log into teams. How can I stop this from happening?
Hi AI_birder ,
Afraid there is nothing we can do about that. By default a folder is created in the Standard "Documents" library in the SharePoint site for each channel.
For formal document management I don't use the "Documents" library I create other document libraries to save it getting clogged up with any document or image that gets attached to a Team chat.
Hope that helps
Andy
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- I also HATE this design. Let me put attachments where I want. Let me organize my document libraries how I want. AT MINIMUM, create a "Teams Attachments" folder instead of putting a new folder for each channel created in the ROOT of the document library. I hate this so much.
Hi AI_birder ,
Afraid there is nothing we can do about that. By default a folder is created in the Standard "Documents" library in the SharePoint site for each channel.
For formal document management I don't use the "Documents" library I create other document libraries to save it getting clogged up with any document or image that gets attached to a Team chat.
Hope that helps
Andy
I encountered this annoying problem in July 2024. We started using our "default" SharePoint site as our Document library for our small team of <10 users a few years ago. Now it has several TB of data in it and would be somewhat difficult to move. But, if there is a way to do it, we will.
It is troublesome that every time someone makes a new Team, it creates these "General" and other named folders at the root of our SP Documents library.
Is there anywhere (official or otherwise) that documents a step-by-step process of how to set up a separate SP site to house these Teams folders so they don't clutter and pollute our main Sharepoint site?
- Andrew is correct, this is not wrong and it works like this by design
This is accurate information (General is created) but it's so 'wrong' in every way - who ever wants a folder called 'General'? Surely this is wrong on every level! Microsoft policy is mindblowingly incomprehensible on this sort of thing. Do you use 'General' folders?
